linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH, E2FSPROGS] ext2fs_set_gdt_csum(): Return an error code on errors instead of void

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Message-ID: <20080331235349.GE11828@mit.edu>
Date:	Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:53:49 -0400
From:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....EDU>
To:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca>
Subject: Re: [PATCH, E2FSPROGS] ext2fs_set_gdt_csum(): Return an error code
	on errors instead of void

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 07:36:27PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca>
> 
> Change the function signature so that ext2fs_set_gdt_csum() returns an
> error code.
> 
> If the inode bitmap hasn't been loaded return EXT2_ET_NO_INODE_BITMAP.

This was a much safer way of handling the case where the inode bitmap
isn't loaded, instead of just forcing bg_itable_uninit to 0.

      	      	      	      	      		       	  - Ted
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