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SubjectRe: (2.5.23) buffer layer error at buffer.c:2326
Hi,

On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Andrew Morton wrote:

> Does anyone have any opinions on what the kernel's behaviour should
> be in the presence of a write I/O error? Our options appear to be:

Another possibility would be to add a more flexible error handling
infrastructure controllable from user space. Think for example of
hotpluggable devices. Either we add support for this to all subsystems or
we add generic support at a higher level. A single daemon could ask the
user to replug the disk or temporarily save a the dirty pages to a
different device.

bye, Roman

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