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From: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>, David <david@blue-labs.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [OOPS] report
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 00:29:34 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <635010000.984720574@tiny> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0103152131230.10709-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>



On Thursday, March 15, 2001 09:44:48 PM -0500 Alexander Viro
<viro@math.psu.edu> wrote:

> 
> 
> On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, David wrote:
> 
>> 2.4.2-ac4
>> 
>> Mar 15 18:02:49 Huntington-Beach kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 
>> 16:41 (hdd), sector 9512
>> Mar 15 18:02:49 Huntington-Beach kernel: hdd: drive not ready for command
>> Mar 15 18:02:48 Huntington-Beach kernel: hdd: drive not ready for command
>> Mar 15 18:02:49 Huntington-Beach kernel: hdd: status error: status=0x00
>> { } Mar 15 18:02:49 Huntington-Beach kernel: hdd: drive not ready for
>> command Mar 15 18:02:49 Huntington-Beach kernel: journal-601, buffer
>> write failed Mar 15 18:02:49 Huntington-Beach kernel: kernel BUG at
>> prints.c:332!
> 
> Umm... Chris, I really don't think that panic() (or BUG(), for that
> matter) is an appropriate reaction to IO errors. They are expected
> events, after all...
> 

Nods.  It needs to force a readonly mount instead.

> ObReiserfs_panic: what the hell is that ->s_lock bit about? panic()
> _never_ tries to do any block IO. It looks like a rudiment of something
> that hadn't been there for 5 years, if not longer. The same goes for
> ext2_panic() and ufs_panic(), BTW... I would suggest crapectomey here.

Ugh, that should have been dragged out and shot...patch will come in the AM.

-chris


  reply	other threads:[~2001-03-16  5:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-03-16  2:07 [OOPS] report David
2001-03-16  2:44 ` Alexander Viro
2001-03-16  5:29   ` Chris Mason [this message]
2001-03-16  5:32     ` Alexander Viro
2001-03-16  5:51       ` Chris Mason
2001-03-16  6:03         ` Alexander Viro
2001-03-16  6:27           ` Chris Mason

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