From: Simon Kirby <sim@netnation.com>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: EXT3 way too happy with write errors
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 09:18:25 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081218171825.GD20515@hostway.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081218170714.GA6797@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 06:07:14PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This was quite a long time ago but it seems nobody replied yet :).
Thanks :)
> What kernel version is this? Originally, we aborted a journal only if
At the time, this was 2.6.26.5.
> we spotted a write error in filesystem metadata. If we spotted an error
> in data, we just complained but continued. This seems to be exactly the
> thing you are hitting. Latest Linus's tree (i.e. 2.6.28-rc5 or so) should
> have the patches that allow tuning the behavior in data=ordered mode - i.e.
> you can tell the filesystem by data_err=abort and data_err=ignore option
> whether it should abort the filesystem or ignore write error in fs data.
Cool, but one question.. Can you think of a case where anyone would ever
want data_err=ignore?
Should this really be a knob?
Simon-
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-18 17:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-15 0:22 EXT3 way too happy with write errors Simon Kirby
2008-12-18 17:07 ` Jan Kara
2008-12-18 17:18 ` Simon Kirby [this message]
2008-12-18 17:27 ` Jan Kara
2008-12-18 17:49 ` Simon Kirby
2008-12-18 18:29 ` Michael Rubin
2009-01-03 2:15 ` Simon Kirby
2009-01-03 2:45 ` Eric Sandeen
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