From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265025AbTGGPlC (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jul 2003 11:41:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265036AbTGGPlC (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jul 2003 11:41:02 -0400 Received: from mail.parknet.co.jp ([210.171.160.6]:778 "EHLO mail.parknet.co.jp") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265025AbTGGPlA (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Jul 2003 11:41:00 -0400 To: "Randy.Dunlap" Cc: Sancho Dauskardt , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: FAT statfs loop abort on read-error References: <5.0.2.1.2.20030704123653.03140b70@pop.puretec.de> <20030706102410.2becd137.rddunlap@osdl.org> From: OGAWA Hirofumi Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2003 00:54:48 +0900 In-Reply-To: <20030706102410.2becd137.rddunlap@osdl.org> Message-ID: <87u19ypc1j.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org "Randy.Dunlap" writes: > On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 13:57:19 +0200 Sancho Dauskardt wrote: > | when calling statfs on a volume that has been removed (without umount) > | fat_statfs() will attempt to read all sectors of the fat table quite a few > | times (depending on the fat type, eg. FAT16 --> 256 times). Yes, fat driver of 2.4 ignore the many errors. > | Possible solution: > | 1. let default_fat_access return something like -2 on 'can't read' error. > | 2. Abort stafs loop on error. > | 3. return -EIO > | > | This would break mode fat_access calls. I could make a patch, but I don't > | know what's going on with those cvf extensions (which seem to replace > | fat_access). Is dmsdos dead / can we ignore it ? > | Somewhere in the list archives, I found comments about the cvf stuff being > | completely removed ? I don't know anybody ported dmsdos to 2.4. The cvf stuff was removed and many error handlings was fixed on 2.5.x. So, personally I think to remove the cvf stuff and backport the some parts of fat driver to 2.4 is good. > (I asked him to add a patch to MAINTAINTERS...) Thank you. But honestly, I may not have skill enough. -- OGAWA Hirofumi