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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Linux Kernel Developers List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext2: Avoid WARN() messages when failing to write to the superblock
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 07:21:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091025062128.GA1391@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1256016146-2677-1-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu>

On Tue 2009-10-20 01:22:26, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> This fixes a common warning reported by kerneloops.org
> 

> +static void ext2_clear_super_error(struct super_block * sb)
> +{
> +	struct buffer_head *sbh = EXT2_SB(sb)->s_sbh;
> +
> +	if (buffer_write_io_error(sbh)) {
> +		/*
> +		 * Oh, dear.  A previous attempt to write the
> +		 * superblock failed.  This could happen because the
> +		 * USB device was yanked out.  Or it could happen to
> +		 * be a transient write error and maybe the block will
> +		 * be remapped.  Nothing we can do but to retry the
> +		 * write and hope for the best.
> +		 */
> +		printk(KERN_ERR "EXT2-fs: %s previous I/O error to "
> +		       "superblock detected", sb->s_id);

KERN_ALERT/KERN_CRITICAL?
									Pavel
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  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-25 19:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-20  5:22 [PATCH] ext2: Avoid WARN() messages when failing to write to the superblock Theodore Ts'o
2009-10-25  6:21 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2009-10-26  4:08   ` Theodore Tso
2009-10-26  7:56     ` Pavel Machek

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