From 5bf5683a33f3584da6eced480967c4f7e11515a8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hidehiro Kawai Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:12:43 -0400 Subject: ext4: 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 an ext4 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. Here is the corresponding patch of the ext3 version: http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2008/9/9/3239374 Signed-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o --- include/linux/jbd2.h | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux/jbd2.h') diff --git a/include/linux/jbd2.h b/include/linux/jbd2.h index c9e7d781db3..d2e91ea998f 100644 --- a/include/linux/jbd2.h +++ b/include/linux/jbd2.h @@ -967,6 +967,9 @@ struct journal_s #define JBD2_FLUSHED 0x008 /* The journal superblock has been flushed */ #define JBD2_LOADED 0x010 /* The journal superblock has been loaded */ #define JBD2_BARRIER 0x020 /* Use IDE barriers */ +#define JBD2_ABORT_ON_SYNCDATA_ERR 0x040 /* Abort the journal on file + * data write error in ordered + * mode */ /* * Function declarations for the journaling transaction and buffer -- cgit v1.2.3