From 0e4fb5e283870757024294bc4567a7c59d936f0b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hidehiro Kawai Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 20:27:57 -0700 Subject: 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 Cc: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/jbd/commit.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'fs/jbd/commit.c') diff --git a/fs/jbd/commit.c b/fs/jbd/commit.c index d6a6659f3e46..25719d902c51 100644 --- a/fs/jbd/commit.c +++ b/fs/jbd/commit.c @@ -482,6 +482,8 @@ void journal_commit_transaction(journal_t *journal) printk(KERN_WARNING "JBD: Detected IO errors while flushing file data " "on %s\n", bdevname(journal->j_fs_dev, b)); + if (journal->j_flags & JFS_ABORT_ON_SYNCDATA_ERR) + journal_abort(journal, err); err = 0; } -- cgit v1.2.3