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SubjectRE: [RFD] What error should FS return when I/O failure occurs?
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The thing is the EIO almost always happens at background so there is no
way to return it to the user space. If you want to see EIO, do fsync
explicitly.

> > Which version of kernel you are using?
> My test environment is based on 2.6.11 kernel
> > It was probably the case in kernel before 2.4.20. The old ext3 had a
> > problem that it ignored IO error at journal commit time. I
> submitted a
> > patch to fix that around the time of 2.4.20. 2.6 should be fine too,
> > unless someone else broke it again.
> >
> > Hua
>
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