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authorHidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com>2008-10-18 20:27:57 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-10-20 08:52:37 -0700
commit0e4fb5e283870757024294bc4567a7c59d936f0b (patch)
tree162263fe9e712124d3df886ca57d8db752a3237d /include/linux
parent46d01a225e694f1a4343beea44f1e85105aedd7e (diff)
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ext3: add an option to control error handling on file data
If the journal doesn't abort when it gets an IO error in file data blocks, the file data corruption will spread silently. Because most of applications and commands do buffered writes without fsync(), they don't notice the IO error. It's scary for mission critical systems. On the other hand, if the journal aborts whenever it gets an IO error in file data blocks, the system will easily become inoperable. So this patch introduces a filesystem option to determine whether it aborts the journal or just call printk() when it gets an IO error in file data. If you mount a ext3 fs with data_err=abort option, it aborts on file data write error. If you mount it with data_err=ignore, it doesn't abort, just call printk(). data_err=ignore is the default. Signed-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/ext3_fs.h2
-rw-r--r--include/linux/jbd.h3
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/ext3_fs.h b/include/linux/ext3_fs.h
index 159d9b4..d14f029 100644
--- a/include/linux/ext3_fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/ext3_fs.h
@@ -380,6 +380,8 @@ struct ext3_inode {
#define EXT3_MOUNT_QUOTA 0x80000 /* Some quota option set */
#define EXT3_MOUNT_USRQUOTA 0x100000 /* "old" user quota */
#define EXT3_MOUNT_GRPQUOTA 0x200000 /* "old" group quota */
+#define EXT3_MOUNT_DATA_ERR_ABORT 0x400000 /* Abort on file data write
+ * error in ordered mode */
/* Compatibility, for having both ext2_fs.h and ext3_fs.h included at once */
#ifndef _LINUX_EXT2_FS_H
diff --git a/include/linux/jbd.h b/include/linux/jbd.h
index 7ebbcb1..35d4f63 100644
--- a/include/linux/jbd.h
+++ b/include/linux/jbd.h
@@ -816,6 +816,9 @@ struct journal_s
#define JFS_FLUSHED 0x008 /* The journal superblock has been flushed */
#define JFS_LOADED 0x010 /* The journal superblock has been loaded */
#define JFS_BARRIER 0x020 /* Use IDE barriers */
+#define JFS_ABORT_ON_SYNCDATA_ERR 0x040 /* Abort the journal on file
+ * data write error in ordered
+ * mode */
/*
* Function declarations for the journaling transaction and buffer
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