Re: [PATCH] [MTD] Fix JFFS2 sync silent failure

["Jörn Engel" <joern@logfs.org>]

On Thu, 22 April 2010 14:08:37 +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> 
> I totally agree, we want some way to catch this problem in the future.
> Really the check needs to be something ala:
> 
>         if (!sb->s_bdi && mnt_has_storage_backing() && rw_mount)
>                 yell_and_fail;
> 
> but I'm not sure how best to accomplish that. We can check for ->s_bdev
> and mtd like you did, but that does not catch network file systems for
> instance.

One way would be to either add a flag to all safe filesystems or create
a noop_bdi for them.  It adds a line of code and some bytes[*] per
instance to most filesystems, but that's the only catchall I can think
of.

I guess if noone comes up with a better plan I'll look into that.

[*] Maybe we can steal a bit somewhere to make it less expensive.

Jörn

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