From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Mahoney Subject: Re: [patch 00/10] btrfs: Error handling/propagation queue Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:43:18 -0500 Message-ID: <4AF1D956.1020407@suse.com> References: <20091104190346.971762946@suse.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20091104190346.971762946@suse.com> List-ID: On 11/04/2009 02:03 PM, Jeff Mahoney wrote: > This patch series fixes a few existing problems and then addresses > the need for better error handling and propagation in btrfs. > > The handling and propagation patch set first finds all locations of > a particular condition not being checked and annotates them with > BTRFS_UERROR to designate that there is an error condition that > is currently unhandled but should be. Then, another patch traverses > the call path to ensure that errors are properly propogated. When the > fix for recovering or passing the error is obvious, we do that too. > > This set is not complete and I expect there to be more fixes coming. In > particular, it currently only annotates btrfs_alloc_path failures as > the call graph for it is quite large. This is in response to Chris asking > for what I already have instead of waiting for it to be complete. I should be clear that this is just what I've been working on so far and hasn't received any testing yet. It was a quick quilt mail in the middle of working on it. (As you might notice by the fact that it doesn't build.) -Jeff -- Jeff Mahoney SUSE Labs