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From: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
To: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Cc: dsterba@suse.cz, David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>,
	Linux BTRFS Mailinglist <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] btrfs: improve error handling of btrfs_add_link()
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2018 19:10:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181128181007.GX2842@twin.jikos.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <880baf21-3b1f-cff9-c687-92bc8844547d@suse.de>

On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 09:56:43AM +0100, Johannes Thumshirn wrote:
> On 26/11/2018 19:37, David Sterba wrote:
> > I though a transaction abort would be here, as the state is not
> > consistent. Also I'm not sure what I as a user would get from such error
> > message after calling link(). If the error handling in the error
> > handling fails, there's not much left to do and the abort either
> > happened earlier in the callees or is necessary here.
> 
> OK, now you've lost me. Isn't that what my previous patch did?

Yes (call abort in fail_dir_item:) but it also merged all the abort
calls -- this is the part that I wanted to be updated.

      reply	other threads:[~2018-11-28 18:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-23  8:42 [PATCH v2] btrfs: improve error handling of btrfs_add_link() Johannes Thumshirn
2018-11-26 18:37 ` David Sterba
2018-11-27  8:56   ` Johannes Thumshirn
2018-11-28 18:10     ` David Sterba [this message]

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