[linux-lvm] reiserfs panic

[Patrick Caulfield]

On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 08:57:12AM -0500, Chris Mason wrote:
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> The problem here is that NAME_NOT_FOUND does not mean error.  It means it is
> safe to insert something with that name, which isn't what we want.  For
> snapshots though, it will work fine.

Oh granted. I didn't intend it to be a fix as such - sorry if some read it as
that - merely a (rather crude) way to prevent a kernel panic in the event a
snapshot gets full.

 
> Now that 2.5.x is out I expect more of these to get cleaned up, and I'm
> workin on patches to turn reiserfs_panic into a forced readonly mount.

That would be nice - but maybe a no-op in the case of an LVM snapshot :-)

patrick