From: card@masi.ibp.fr (Remy CARD) Subject: Re: Bad blocks (?) on hard disk Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 06:16:02 GMT
In article <1993Jan28.212914.13207@prime.mdata.fi> kennu@mits.mdata.fi (Kenneth Falck) writes:
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>By the way, I got my system pretty jammed when I fingered an ext2fs
>partition by hand and tried to mount it; ext2fs said "Panic:
>ext2_read_inode can't read inode" or something like that. Not much,
>except that the partition was in my /etc/fstab, so every attempt to
>reboot resulted in a panic... Had to boot off a floppy. (I wonder
>if ext2fs could just settle to umount the partition instead of
>paniccing..)
Well, panic is quite brutal and I may have used it too much in ext2fs
alpha 0.2. In the next release, I will try to replace most of the calls to
panic() with printk() and handle errors in a more gracefully manner.
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>kennu@mits.mdata.fi
Remy