[linux-lvm] Re: LVM 2.2 snapshot bug

Andreas Dilger adilger at turbolinux.com
Wed Nov 8 19:08:44 UTC 2000


You write:
> On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 01:36:06PM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> > The problem is that I/O errors during journal recovery would mean a
> > corrupt filesystem.  The ext3 recovery code (now) does the correct thing
> > and aborts the journal recovery [..]
> 
> ext3 oopses the kernel after getting I/O errors during the writes. I don't
> consider that the correct thing.

That was in the older versions.  That's why I put "(now)" in there - the
ext3-0.0.3 and later code handles I/O errors and OOM in a reasonable way.

Cheers, Andreas
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