Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:09:05 -0600 | From | Andreas Dilger <> | Subject | Re: ext3 on latest -git: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000c |
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On Jul 17, 2008 10:43 -0400, Josef Bacik wrote: > Yeah thats a hard to answer question, one that I will leave up to others > who have been doing this much longer than I. My thought is remount-ro > is there to keep you from crashing, so if you have errors=continue then > you expect to live with the consequences. Course if that bit gets flipped > via corruption thats not good either.
It shouldn't cause the kernel to crash, but it should definitely return an error to the application. This is probably one of the code paths that the Coverity folks were reporting on in FAST this year where on-disk errors are not propagated to the application.
Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.
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