Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932529AbVLPWYK (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Dec 2005 17:24:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932542AbVLPWYK (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Dec 2005 17:24:10 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:28621 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932529AbVLPWYI (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Dec 2005 17:24:08 -0500 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Gunter Ohrner Subject: Re: gtkpod and Filesystem Followup-To: gmane.linux.kernel Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 23:20:30 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20051216145234.M78009@linuxwireless.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 212.117.85.179 User-Agent: KNode/0.10 Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 821 Lines: 15 Jan Engelhardt wrote: >>> a bug in gtkpod or the kernel (FS Panic). >>Maybe an FS error on your iPod? Did you try to reformat or dosfsck it? > Even then, the filesystem code should handle corrupt filesystems more > gracefully. Mh, what's "more gracefully" in the light of fs corruption? The driver just blocked write access to avoid further damage caused by writing to an inconsistent file system which sound perfectly reasonable to me. Writing to a corrupted fs could cause anything to it, depending on the corruption, so better act safe than sorry... Greetings, Gunter - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/