On Tue, Aug 24, 1999 at 03:15:09PM +0200, Wolfgang Solfrank wrote:
> Hmm, I think the appropriate thing to do is some equivalent of "panic"ing,
> but only for the filesystem in question.  I.e. something like forcibly
> unmounting that filesystem (but maybe continue to return EIO on access to
> anything below the mountpoint?).  Whether to flush dirty buffers for the
> filesystem in question out or not, I'm not sure about either.

I'm not sure. I think if this happens on a non-removable hard drive, a
panic is the rigth thing to do. You'll get a core dump, and it's not
necesserely a good thing to let a server operate without all it's filesystems.
On my shell server, if /var gets corrupted, I'm sure I prefer to get a panic
instead of letting it run without accounting.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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