> Anybody looking for a nice kernel-project?
> -- Fix ext2fs to not panic on disk errors. Nowadays it does
> ext2_panic (inode->i_sb, "ext2_read_inode", [..]);
Stephen Tweedie already did this. Did it get integrated in the
official sources?
If anyone wants a similar project, though, how about doing it for
the fat filesystem (and its various mutations).
> (Testing is usually hard for this kind of problems. However as you
> have the source, you can modify the floppy driver to refuse (return
> error) a read say 1 in 10 times.)
Stephen did a special block device that will generate errors
on demand for exactly this reason.
-- Erik Corry erik@arbat.com