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Eric Sandeen bd39597cbd ext2: avoid printk floods in the face of directory corruption

A very large directory with many read failures (either due to storage
problems, or due to invalid size & blocks from corruption) will generate a
printk storm as the filesystem continues to try to read all the blocks.
This flood of messages can tie up the box until it is complete - which may
be a very long time, especially for very large corrupted values.

This is fixed by only reporting the corruption once each time we try to
read the directory.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@kernel.sg>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

2008-10-16 11:21:46 -07:00

acl.c

[PATCH] sanitize ->permission() prototype

2008-07-26 20:53:14 -04:00

acl.h

[PATCH] sanitize ->permission() prototype

2008-07-26 20:53:14 -04:00

balloc.c

ext2: fix ext2 block reservation early ENOSPC issue

2008-10-16 11:21:45 -07:00

dir.c

ext2: avoid printk floods in the face of directory corruption