linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 7/8] exofs: Documentation

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Message-ID: <20090321132601.GA10099@ioremap.net>
Date:	Sat, 21 Mar 2009 16:26:01 +0300
From:	Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@...emap.net>
To:	Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@...asas.com>
Cc:	Avishay Traeger <avishay@...il.com>, Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	open-osd <osd-dev@...n-osd.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>,
	FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/8] exofs: Documentation

Hi.

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 08:10:58PM +0200, Boaz Harrosh (bharrosh@...asas.com) wrote:
> +++ b/fs/exofs/BUGS
> @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
> +- Out-of-space may cause a severe problem if the object (and directory entry)
> +  were written, but the inode attributes failed. Then if the filesystem was
> +  unmounted and mounted the kernel can get into an endless loop doing a readdir.

Does it also mean that damaged media may end up freezing the machine
during the mount?

-- 
	Evgeniy Polyakov
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