Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 04 Jun 2009 09:10:59 +0300 | From | Artem Bityutskiy <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/4] FS: userspace notification of errors |
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ext Jan Kara wrote: > Hi, > >> 2. Make FAT and EXT2 file systems use the above mechanism to optionally >> notify user space about errors. Implemented as 'notify' mount option >> (PATCH 3,4). >> FAT error reporting facilities had to be re-factored (PATCH 2) in >> order to simplify sending error notifications. > One question: Why would not a filesystem / admin want the notification > to be sent? Or in other words what's the point of the mount option?
I agree on this. I guess we should instead implement a VFS helper like 'send_error_notification(sb, error_type)'. Then we can teach certain FSes to utilize it. We are particularly interested in FAT, actually.
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