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Date:	Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:52:36 -0600
From:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
To:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....EDU>
CC:	ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>,
	pspencer@...lds.utoronto.ca
Subject: Re: [PATCH] e2fsprogs: error checking in blkid/devname.c

Theodore Tso wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 10:16:53AM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> From a quick chat with agk, it sounds like outright failure is
>> appropriate.  Sounds like most of the calls fail for reasons like ENOMEM
>> (but it might be nice if it returned that, eh?)
> 
> So the question then is why is it that Phillip was able to seeing
> failures when he was creating and deleting snapshots?
> 
> I don't mind having blkid return a failure, but it may not fix
> Phillip's scenario which he listed in BZ #433857; yeah, he won't have
> a core dump, which is good, but it might mean that some or all of the
> dm volumes disappear from the blkid results.

Maybe a device-mapper bug is in order :)

-Eric
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