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Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 14:13:25 -0800
From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
To: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: Helge Hafting <helgehaf@aitel.hist.no>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Q] FAT driver enhancement
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On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 10:27:52PM +0900, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:
> Helge Hafting <helgehaf@aitel.hist.no> writes:
> 
> > OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:
> > > 
> > > Jos Hulzink <josh@stack.nl> writes:
> > > > Questions:
> > > >
> > > > 1) How do you think about the checking of the FAT tables ? It definitely
> > > >    will slow down the mount.
> > > 
> > > Unfortunately if FAT table has bad sector, FAT tables may not be the
> > > same.
> > 
> > And then you don't want to mount unless you know what you
> > are doing.  And those knowing what they are doing can be bothered
> > to use some kind of "force" option in this case.  Or perhaps an
> > option that selects which FAT to trust.
> 
> I mean I/O error, not data damage.

It is the block layer's responsibility to retry such soft errors and recover.

Probably the best you can do, is retry the read a few times if there is an error
reported, and then fail if it persists.
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