Hi,
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 12:48:24PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
>
> > If your data is toasted there's a limit to what can be recovered. But in
> > this case, did you really end up with something non-unmountable? ext2
> > should have complained like mad, but it shouldn't have crashed.
>
> It resulted in panic() as far as I can remember. It was long time ago.
Can you remember when? I added a lot of protection for IO error
handling to ext2 very late in the 2.0 cycle (I think it went in at
2.0.31). Before that, it was definitely prone to panicing if IO
went wrong.
Cheers,
Stephen
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