Re: EXT2FS patch: IO error handling
Rogier Wolff (R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl)
Sun, 1 Jun 1997 10:28:28 +0200 (MET DST)
Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
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> Anyway, I've had a 1MB flawd device running for a while now with
> various combinations of block bitmap, inode bitmap and inode table
> errors being injected and it seems to cope correctly. Errors in the
> group descriptors or superblock aren't relevant: those are only ever
> read during mount and are held in memory thereafter, so we never
> panic on failure to read them.
I once crashed my router mounting a flawed floppy..... Hmmm. Maybe
you're right. It probably read the group descriptors correctly, and
failed shortly thereafter.....
ROger.