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SubjectRe: Top 10 bugs/warnings for the week of March 23rd, 2008
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
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