--------------------- PatchSet 827 Date: 2002/04/10 18:02:19 Author: sct Log: Don't consider ENOSPC as a fatal error when allocating an inode. Otherwise running out of inodes marks the fs as having an error, potentially taking the kernel down if we are in panic-on-error fs mode. Members: fs/ext3/ialloc.c:1.19.4.4->1.19.4.5 [ext3-1_0-branch] --- linux-ext3-2.4merge/fs/ext3/ialloc.c.=K0001=.orig Sat Aug 17 20:09:51 2002 +++ linux-ext3-2.4merge/fs/ext3/ialloc.c Mon Aug 19 18:48:50 2002 @@ -392,7 +392,7 @@ err = -ENOSPC; if (!gdp) - goto fail; + goto out; err = -EIO; bitmap_nr = load_inode_bitmap (sb, i); @@ -523,9 +523,10 @@ return inode; fail: + ext3_std_error(sb, err); +out: unlock_super(sb); iput(inode); - ext3_std_error(sb, err); return ERR_PTR(err); }