Re: [PATCH 3/3] overlayfs: Report writeback errors on upper

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 06:20:27PM +0000, Sargun Dhillon wrote:
> I fail to see why this is neccessary if you incorporate error reporting into the 
> sync_fs callback. Why is this separate from that callback? If you pickup Jeff's
> patch that adds the 2nd flag to errseq for "observed", you should be able to
> stash the first errseq seen in the ovl_fs struct, and do the check-and-return
> in there instead instead of adding this new infrastructure.

You still haven't explained why you want to add the "observed" flag.