On Thursday, March 15, 2001 09:44:48 PM -0500 Alexander Viro
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, David wrote:
>
>> 2.4.2-ac4
>>
>> Mar 15 18:02:49 Huntington-Beach kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev
>> 16:41 (hdd), sector 9512
>> Mar 15 18:02:49 Huntington-Beach kernel: hdd: drive not ready for command
>> Mar 15 18:02:48 Huntington-Beach kernel: hdd: drive not ready for command
>> Mar 15 18:02:49 Huntington-Beach kernel: hdd: status error: status=0x00
>> { } Mar 15 18:02:49 Huntington-Beach kernel: hdd: drive not ready for
>> command Mar 15 18:02:49 Huntington-Beach kernel: journal-601, buffer
>> write failed Mar 15 18:02:49 Huntington-Beach kernel: kernel BUG at
>> prints.c:332!
>
> Umm... Chris, I really don't think that panic() (or BUG(), for that
> matter) is an appropriate reaction to IO errors. They are expected
> events, after all...
>
Nods. It needs to force a readonly mount instead.
> ObReiserfs_panic: what the hell is that ->s_lock bit about? panic()
> _never_ tries to do any block IO. It looks like a rudiment of something
> that hadn't been there for 5 years, if not longer. The same goes for
> ext2_panic() and ufs_panic(), BTW... I would suggest crapectomey here.
Ugh, that should have been dragged out and shot...patch will come in the AM.
-chris
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