On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 07:24 -0400, Ted Ts'o wrote: > Part of the problem is that we have a few places in the kernel where > failure is really not an option --- or rather, if we're going to fail > while we're in the middle of doing a commit, our choices really are > (a) retry the loop in the jbd layer (which Andrew really doesn't > like), (b) keep our own private cache of free memory so we don't fail > and/or loop, (c) fail the file system and mark it read-only, or (d) > panic.
d) do the allocation before you're committed to going fwd and can still fail and back out. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
