linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fsync.2: ERRORS: add EIO and ENOSPC

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Date:   Thu, 10 Sep 2020 08:50:42 +1000
From:   NeilBrown <neilb@...e.de>
To:     Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
        "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@...il.com>
Cc:     milan.opensource@...il.com, lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fsync.2: ERRORS: add EIO and ENOSPC

On Tue, Sep 08 2020, Jeff Layton wrote:

>
> Yep.
>
> My only comment is that there is nothing special about EIO and ENOSPC.

There are two type of errors that fsync can return.
 EBADF EROFS EINVAL  - these are usage errors.
 EIO ENOSPC EDQUOT   - these are functional failures.

So I would say there *is* something special about those errors, though
it isn't *very* special, and it isn't *just* those errors. EDQUOT should
be included in the list.

NeilBrown


> All errors are the same in this regard. Basically, issuing a new fsync
> after a failed one doesn't do any good. You need to redirty the pages
> first.
> -- 
> Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>

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