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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/4] I/O Error Handling for ReiserFS v3
Alex Zarochentsev wrote:

>On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 08:44:22AM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote:
>
>
>>These have received design approval from zam (and thus me), but zam, did
>>they receive stress testing by Elena under your guidance?
>>
>>
>
>No. We have a long queue of test tasks. There are fsck.reiser4 testing,
>reiser4/dmapper crashes and the benchmarks in the queue.
>
>
Well, we cannot let our process be a barrier to good patches getting in,
so let me ask, Jeff, did you test each of these conditions you
improved? How? Did anyone else test them?

>
>
>>Hans
>>
>>Jeffrey Mahoney wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>Hey all -
>>>
>>>One of the most common complaints I've heard about ReiserFS is how graceless
>>>it is in handling critical I/O errors.
>>>
>>>ext[23] can handle I/O errors anywhere, with the results being up to the
>>>system admin to determine: continue, go read only, or panic.
>>>
>>>ReiserFS doesn't offer the admin any such choice, instead panicking on any
>>>I/O error in the journal.
>>>
>>>The available options are read only or panic, since ReiserFS does not
>>>currently support operations without the journal.
>>>
>>>In the four messages that follow, you'll find: *
>>>reiserfs-cleanup-buffer-heads.diff - Cleans up handling of buffer head
>>>bitfields - uses the kernel supplied FNS_BUFFER macros instead. *
>>>reiserfs-cleanup-sb-journal.diff - Cleans up accessing of the journal
>>>structure, prefering to create a temporary variable in functions that access
>>>the journal structure non-trivially. Should make 0 difference at compile
>>>time. * reiserfs-io-error-handling.diff - Allows ReiserFS to gracefully
>>>handle I/O errors in critical code paths. The admin has the option to go
>>>read-only or panic. Since ReiserFS has no option to ignore the use of the
>>>journal, the "continue" method is not enabled. * reiserfs-write-lock.diff -
>>>Fixes two missing reiserfs_write_unlock() calls on error paths that are
>>>unrelated to reiserfs-io-error-handling.diff
>>>
>>>These patches have seen a lot of testing in the SuSE Linux Enterprise Server
>>>9 kernel, and are considered ready for mainline.
>>>
>>>They've received approval[1] from the ReiserFS maintainers also.
>>>
>>>Andrew - Apologies for the previous format; Please apply.
>>>
>>>Thanks.
>>>
>>>-Jeff
>>>
>>>[1] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=reiserfs&m=109587254714180
>>>
>>>-- Jeff Mahoney SuSE Labs
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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