Messages in this thread Patch in this message |  | | Date | Wed, 28 Aug 2002 16:45:19 +0100 | From | Stephen Tweedie <> | Subject | [Patch 2/8] 2.4.20-pre4/ext3: Fix out-of-inodes handling |
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Don't consider ENOSPC as a fatal error when allocating an inode. Otherwise running out of inodes marks the fs as having an error, potentially taking the kernel down if we are in panic-on-error fs mode.
--- linux-ext3-2.4merge/fs/ext3/ialloc.c.=K0003=.orig Tue Aug 27 23:17:07 2002 +++ linux-ext3-2.4merge/fs/ext3/ialloc.c Tue Aug 27 23:19:57 2002 @@ -392,7 +392,7 @@ err = -ENOSPC; if (!gdp) - goto fail; + goto out; err = -EIO; bitmap_nr = load_inode_bitmap (sb, i); @@ -523,9 +523,10 @@ return inode; fail: + ext3_std_error(sb, err); +out: unlock_super(sb); iput(inode); - ext3_std_error(sb, err); return ERR_PTR(err); } - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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