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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
To: Theodore Tso <tytso@MIT.EDU>
Cc: ext4 development <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>,
	pspencer@fields.utoronto.ca
Subject: Re: [PATCH] e2fsprogs: error checking in blkid/devname.c
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:52:36 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47BEFDD4.1040803@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080222163331.GQ20118@mit.edu>

Theodore Tso wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 10:16:53AM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> From a quick chat with agk, it sounds like outright failure is
>> appropriate.  Sounds like most of the calls fail for reasons like ENOMEM
>> (but it might be nice if it returned that, eh?)
> 
> So the question then is why is it that Phillip was able to seeing
> failures when he was creating and deleting snapshots?
> 
> I don't mind having blkid return a failure, but it may not fix
> Phillip's scenario which he listed in BZ #433857; yeah, he won't have
> a core dump, which is good, but it might mean that some or all of the
> dm volumes disappear from the blkid results.

Maybe a device-mapper bug is in order :)

-Eric

  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-22 16:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-21 22:10 [PATCH] e2fsprogs: error checking in blkid/devname.c Eric Sandeen
2008-02-22 13:16 ` Theodore Tso
2008-02-22 15:02   ` Eric Sandeen
2008-02-22 15:44     ` Theodore Tso
2008-02-22 16:16       ` Eric Sandeen
2008-02-22 16:33         ` Theodore Tso
2008-02-22 16:52           ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2008-02-22 18:22             ` Theodore Tso
2008-02-22 18:10           ` Philip Spencer
2008-02-22 18:25             ` Theodore Tso
2008-02-22 15:46   ` Philip Spencer

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