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From: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>, Manish Katiyar <mkatiyar@gmail.com>,
	ext4 <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] jbd2 : Make jbd2 transaction handle allocation to return errors and handle them gracefully.
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 09:20:23 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110124172020.GB22970@noexit> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110124133143.GA5058@quack.suse.cz>

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 02:31:43PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Sat 22-01-11 22:29:01, Joel Becker wrote:
> > 	This API is markedly better to read.  Btw, does _nofail() mean no
> > possible failures, or just no memory errors?  If it is no failures, I'd
> > love to see the function become void.
>   jbd2_journal_start can always fail e.g. because the journal is aborted.
> So it really just means no memory failures...

	Then _nofail() is a terrible name, because it can still fail.
Let's call it jbd2_journal_start_nofs(); that's what it is.

Joel

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-24 17:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-23  3:32 [PATCH 1/3] jbd2 : Make jbd2 transaction handle allocation to return errors and handle them gracefully Manish Katiyar
2011-01-23  5:40 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-01-23  5:53   ` Manish Katiyar
2011-01-23  6:29   ` Joel Becker
2011-01-24 13:31     ` Jan Kara
2011-01-24 17:20       ` Joel Becker [this message]
2011-01-25 11:40         ` Jan Kara
2011-01-25  0:06       ` Andreas Dilger
2011-01-25 11:46         ` Jan Kara
2011-01-30  5:40           ` Manish Katiyar
2011-02-04 15:53             ` Jan Kara
2011-02-04 22:44               ` Manish Katiyar
2011-04-25  0:06               ` Manish Katiyar
2011-01-25  6:47       ` Andreas Dilger

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