Re: [PATCH 7/8] exofs: Documentation

From: Evgeniy Polyakov
Date: Sat Mar 21 2009 - 09:26:26 EST


Hi.

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 08:10:58PM +0200, Boaz Harrosh (bharrosh@xxxxxxxxxxx) 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?

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Evgeniy Polyakov
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