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Message-ID: <1497539004.4607.7.camel@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 11:03:24 -0400 From: Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com> To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, tytso@....edu, axboe@...nel.dk, mawilcox@...rosoft.com, ross.zwisler@...ux.intel.com, corbet@....net, Chris Mason <clm@...com>, Josef Bacik <jbacik@...com>, David Sterba <dsterba@...e.com>, "Darrick J . Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-block@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 12/20] fs: add a new fstype flag to indicate how writeback errors are tracked On Thu, 2017-06-15 at 07:57 -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 06:42:12AM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote: > > Correct. > > > > But if there is a data writeback error, should we report an error on all > > open fds at that time (like we will for fsync)? > > We should in theory, but I don't see how to properly do it. In addition > sync_file_range just can't be used for data integrity to start with, so > I don't think it's worth it. At some point we should add a proper > fsync_range syscall, though. filemap_report_wb_err will always return 0 if the inode never has mapping_set_error called on it. So, I think we should be able to do it there once we get all of the fs' converted over. That'll have to happen at the end of the series however. -- Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>
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