Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964887AbVLQAan (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Dec 2005 19:30:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932562AbVLQAan (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Dec 2005 19:30:43 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:46057 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932560AbVLQAam (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Dec 2005 19:30:42 -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: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 01:26:09 +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: 680 Lines: 13 Jan Engelhardt wrote: >>Mh, what's "more gracefully" in the light of fs corruption? > return -EIO; In this case you wouldn't even be able to read data from the disk which is not affected by the inconsistencies. If the FS driver switches to readonly mode, that's possible at least. Personally I like such a kind of "Best effort" behaviour. Well, but I'm not the vfat32 driver developer, so who am I to argue? :-) 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/