Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 17:46:06 +0200 From: Manuel Bouyer <[email protected]>
Sure. There's lot of other ways to crash the kernel with a broken ffs. In this specific case it's OK to return an error, but in the general case I prefer to have the kernel panic when an inconsistency is detected in ffs, than return an error and try to continue running with a bogus filesystem. Continuing to run with a bogus file system is no good, but panicking the kernel is worse. If the kernel takes any drastic action beyond merely returning an error, it should remount the file system read-only.
