From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wi0-f182.google.com (mail-wi0-f182.google.com [209.85.212.182]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 869036B0038 for ; Tue, 15 Sep 2015 12:52:52 -0400 (EDT) Received: by wicfx3 with SMTP id fx3so37674823wic.1 for ; Tue, 15 Sep 2015 09:52:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from one.firstfloor.org (one.firstfloor.org. [193.170.194.197]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id o7si21340212wjq.49.2015.09.15.09.52.50 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 15 Sep 2015 09:52:51 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 18:52:50 +0200 From: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] fs: global sync to not clear error status of individual inodes Message-ID: <20150915165250.GC1747@two.firstfloor.org> References: <20150915094638.GA13399@xzibit.linux.bs1.fc.nec.co.jp> <20150915095412.GD13399@xzibit.linux.bs1.fc.nec.co.jp> <20150915152006.GD2905@mtj.duckdns.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150915152006.GD2905@mtj.duckdns.org> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Tejun Heo Cc: Junichi Nomura , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-mm@kvack.org" , "akpm@linux-foundation.org" , "andi@firstfloor.org" , "fengguang.wu@intel.com" , "tony.luck@intel.com" , "liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com" , "david@fromorbit.com" , Naoya Horiguchi > Is this an actual problem? Write errors usually indicate that the There are transaction systems that need to track errors at the level of the individual IO. So yes we should guarantee that if a particular sync failed an error is always returned. -Andi -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org