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From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: -mm -> 2.6.13 merge status
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 12:45:10 -0700
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To: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.de>
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Jeff Mahoney wrote:

>All the assertions (a quick grep through the code shows something like
>3800 of them) ultimately result in a reiser4_panic, which BUG()'s. Are
>*all* of these assertions really worth taking the system down? I think a
>reiser4_error function that can abort just that filesystem and recover
>somewhat gracefully would be a bit more in order.
>  
>
A good point.  Thanks for it.