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From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Bryan Donlan <bdonlan@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	sct@redhat.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, adilger@sun.com
Subject: Re: [RESEND/PATCH] ext[234]: Return -EIO not -ESTALE on directory traversal missing inode
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 00:39:12 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090215053912.GD10706@mini-me.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3e8340490902142053x18ae3c20q7018e0d8bc42636d@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 11:53:48PM -0500, Bryan Donlan wrote:
> > I'm dubious about unlikely() here; OTOH, penalizing the error case
> > seems reasonable.
> 
> I can leave it without the unlikely(), as it was before, but as far as
> I can tell, this should never happen under a non-corrupted, non-broken
> hardware filesystem, so it seems like a reasonable annotation to me.

You're right.  I was looking at the wrong place in the source, and
thought this could happen if the lookup failed; but yes, you're right,
this case can only happen if the filesystem is corrupted or there is
an I/O error.

						- Ted

  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-15  5:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1234588099-8445-1-git-send-email-bdonlan@fushizen.net>
2009-02-14  5:18 ` [RESEND/PATCH] ext[234]: Return -EIO not -ESTALE on directory traversal missing inode Bryan Donlan
2009-02-14 14:14   ` Theodore Tso
2009-02-15  4:53     ` Bryan Donlan
2009-02-15  5:39       ` Theodore Tso [this message]
2009-02-17  1:10     ` [PATCH v2] ext[234]: Return -EIO not -ESTALE on directory traversal through deleted inode Bryan Donlan
2009-02-20 17:53       ` Bryan Donlan
2009-02-20 17:59         ` Theodore Tso
2009-02-21  7:35           ` Bryan Donlan
2009-02-20 18:25         ` Andrew Morton
     [not found] <1234588099-8445-1-git-sen--dry-run>
2009-02-14  5:17 ` [RESEND/PATCH] ext[234]: Return -EIO not -ESTALE on directory traversal missing inode d-email-bdonlan

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