Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 25 May 2008 13:58:14 +0200 | From | Stefan Richter <> | Subject | Re: Top 10 bugs/warnings for the week of March 23rd, 2008 |
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Theodore Tso wrote: > On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 03:30:20PM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote: >> Ted looked at these during the LF summit, and his conclusion was that >> they're all media errors (eg USB unplug) that ext3 then did not handle >> well at all. Maybe Ted has an update on this? >> > > Not really. It's on my todo list but fixing a bug caused by users > doing something stupid (pulling a mounted USB stick) has been lower > than a number of other fires burning on my plate. I'll try to get to > it but a lot of other things I need to worry about have deadlines > associated with them....
There are more reasons for connection loss than "user doing something stupid". Firmware flaws for example. Or SBP-2 re-login failing on a crowded FireWire bus.
Hot-removal capability is a fundamental requirement for a filesystem, just like for the block drivers and transport drivers. (E.g. don't corrupt the kernel in case of unrecoverable IO failures.)
BTW, hfs+ is also buggy WRT connection loss. -- Stefan Richter -=====-==--- -=-= ==--= http://arcgraph.de/sr/
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