From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263068AbVFWTxB (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Jun 2005 15:53:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262752AbVFWTqt (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Jun 2005 15:46:49 -0400 Received: from rwcrmhc12.comcast.net ([216.148.227.85]:1201 "EHLO rwcrmhc12.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262858AbVFWTpJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Jun 2005 15:45:09 -0400 Message-ID: <42BB1146.5050105@namesys.com> Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 12:45:10 -0700 From: Hans Reiser User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeff Mahoney CC: Andrew Morton , penberg@gmail.com, ak@suse.de, flx@namesys.com, zam@namesys.com, vs@thebsh.namesys.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, reiserfs-list@namesys.com, penberg@cs.helsinki.fi Subject: Re: -mm -> 2.6.13 merge status References: <20050620235458.5b437274.akpm@osdl.org.suse.lists.linux.kernel> <42B86027.3090001@namesys.com> <20050621195642.GD14251@wotan.suse.de> <42B8C0FF.2010800@namesys.com> <84144f0205062223226d560e41@mail.gmail.com> <42BB0151.3030904@suse.de> <20050623114318.5ae13514.akpm@osdl.org> <42BB0D99.7070703@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <42BB0D99.7070703@suse.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jeff Mahoney wrote: >All the assertions (a quick grep through the code shows something like >3800 of them) ultimately result in a reiser4_panic, which BUG()'s. Are >*all* of these assertions really worth taking the system down? I think a >reiser4_error function that can abort just that filesystem and recover >somewhat gracefully would be a bit more in order. > > A good point. Thanks for it.