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From: Erik Mouw <erik@harddisk-recovery.com>
To: Suzuki K P <suzuki@in.ibm.com>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	andmike@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] PATCH to fix rescan_partitions to return errors properly - take 2
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 23:07:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061006210721.GC31233@harddisk-recovery.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <452695CE.8080901@in.ibm.com>

On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 10:43:42AM -0700, Suzuki K P wrote:
> Erik Mouw wrote:
> >I think it's best not to change the current behaviour and let all
> >partition checkers run, even if one of them failed due to device
> >errors. I wouldn't mind if the behaviour changed like you propose,
> >though.
> >
> At present, the partition checkers doesn't run, if one of the preceeding 
> checker has reported an error ! *But*, some of the checkers doesn't 
> report the I/O error which they came across! So, this may let others 
> run. Thats not we want, right. We would like them to return I/O errors, 
> and and the check_partition should let other partition checkers continue.

Indeed, we want them to behave the same. I.e.: a partition checker
should tell when it encounters an I/O error.


Erik

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-06 21:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-04  1:00 [RFC] PATCH to fix rescan_partitions to return errors properly Suzuki Kp
2006-10-04 13:09 ` Erik Mouw
2006-10-04 16:50   ` Suzuki Kp
2006-10-04 17:08     ` Erik Mouw
2006-10-04 17:37       ` Suzuki Kp
2006-10-05 10:40         ` Erik Mouw
2006-10-05 20:32           ` [RFC] PATCH to fix rescan_partitions to return errors properly - take 2 Suzuki Kp
2006-10-05 22:07             ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-06 12:53             ` Erik Mouw
2006-10-06 17:43               ` Suzuki K P
2006-10-06 21:07                 ` Erik Mouw [this message]
2006-10-07  1:46                   ` [RFC] Fix check_partition routines ( was Re: [RFC] PATCH to fix rescan_partitions to return errors properly - take 2) Suzuki K P
2006-10-07  2:45                     ` Andrew Morton

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