Re: Linux 2.4.30-rc3 md/ext3 problems (ext3 gurus : please check)

From: Hifumi Hisashi
Date: Thu Apr 28 2005 - 04:00:11 EST



At 07:22 05/04/28, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
>In checking out the patch one last time, though, I found one anomaly.
>The patch that was submitted to 2.6 for this problem also changed
>write_inode_now() to return an error value. The patch that got
>submitted to 2.4 had no such change. Was there a reason for this
>difference between the two versions?

Right. Also in ver 2.4, I know write_inode_now() has to be changed for perfect
I/O error detection during synchronous writing.

In do_generic_file_write(mm/filemap.c), does the current return value handling is
unchanged?

Thanks,

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