Jeff, would you be willing to make a proposal for what should be done?
I would be interested in your suggestions.
Jeff Mahoney wrote:
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> Hans -
>
> These tests must have been run on a kernel prior to 2.6.10-rc1. The I/O
> error code exhibits behavior similar to ext3, so (1b). There are still
> kinks to be worked out, but it's definitely not the "throw up our arms
> and give up" that it used to be.
>
> Implementing behavior 1a for ext3 and reiserfs should be fairly trivial
> - it just means that tests to check if the filesystem is in an aborted
> state ("shutdown" in xfs terms) need to added to the call path in some
> places, and be moved earlier in others.
>
> -Jeff
>
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> Jeff Mahoney
> SuSE Labs
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