"Theodore Y. Ts'o" wrote:
>
> Oh, if we were going to do this we'd have to add tags to the buffer
> structure to indicate the inode number and logical block number, so that
> if a buffer gets returned with an error, the filesystem can figure out
> what to do with it. (Which in the case of filesystem metadata still
> could be nothing but the current choice of ignore the error, panic, or
> mark the filesystem as read-only.)
Lock the buffer in memory, printk(KERN_ALERT) the device and sector
number, page the site admin: he should make a backup before the next
power cycle 8-/
My own disks always failed with read errors, not write errors, I don't
know if we should add lots of logic for (rare) write errors.
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