linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext3: wait on all pending commits in ext3_sync

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Message-ID: <20081103214833.GC18117@mit.edu>
Date:	Mon, 3 Nov 2008 16:48:33 -0500
From:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	ajones@...erbed.com, sandeen@...hat.com,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, sct@...hat.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext3: wait on all pending commits in ext3_sync_fs

On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 01:27:35PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Oh, this is sync_fs.  How meaningful would it be to return an error
> from sys_umount()?  Would there be any point in leaving the errored fs
> mounted?  Dunno.
> 
> But if we're going to drop this error on the floor, we should do
> that at a higher level, not on a per-fs basis ;)

At the very least we should log it at the VFS layer, IMHO.

       	    	     	    	      	  - Ted
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