linux-kernel - Re: [RFC xfstests PATCH] xfstests: add a writeback error handling test

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Date:   Mon, 24 Apr 2017 08:00:19 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>
Cc:     fstests@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [RFC xfstests PATCH] xfstests: add a writeback error handling
 test

On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 09:45:51AM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> With the patch series above, ext4 now passes. xfs and btrfs end up in
> r/o mode after the test. xfs returns -EIO at that point though, and
> btrfs returns -EROFS. What behavior we actually want there, I'm not
> certain. We might be able to mitigate that by putting the journals on a
> separate device?

This looks like XFS shut down because of a permanent write error from
dm-error.  Which seems like the expected behavior.