Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755700AbZFCWaT (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Jun 2009 18:30:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753912AbZFCWaG (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Jun 2009 18:30:06 -0400 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.26.193]:44496 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753691AbZFCWaF (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Jun 2009 18:30:05 -0400 Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 00:30:06 +0200 From: Jan Kara To: Denis Karpov Cc: axboe@kernel.dk, akpm@linux-foundation.org, hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, adrian.hunter@nokia.com, artem.bityutskiy@nokia.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] FS: userspace notification of errors Message-ID: <20090603223005.GA9050@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> References: <1244041518-32229-1-git-send-email-ext-denis.2.karpov@nokia.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1244041518-32229-1-git-send-email-ext-denis.2.karpov@nokia.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 739 Lines: 19 Hi, > 2. Make FAT and EXT2 file systems use the above mechanism to optionally > notify user space about errors. Implemented as 'notify' mount option > (PATCH 3,4). > FAT error reporting facilities had to be re-factored (PATCH 2) in > order to simplify sending error notifications. One question: Why would not a filesystem / admin want the notification to be sent? Or in other words what's the point of the mount option? Honza -- Jan Kara SuSE CR Labs -- 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/