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Message-ID: <46D48592.4030704@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 15:29:06 -0500
From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
To: Andreas Dilger <adilger@...sterfs.com>
CC: ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] fix mballoc oopses on mkdir
Andreas Dilger wrote:
>> (there are 54 BUGs and BUG_ONs in this file...!)
>
> Yes, we like lots of assertions in our code, because it is exceedingly
> complex to debug otherwise.
But wouldn't error recovery be a better choice? You could macro-ize it
to BUG for development purposes if you wanted, I suppose...
(xfs has a mask that can be set to turn various flavors of errors into
BUGs, that has been useful at times to catch the system state at the
point of the error)
-Eric
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