Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:34:57 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au> To: "Rick C. Petty" <rick-freebsd@kiwi-computer.com> Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: misc/118249: moving a directory changes its mtime Message-ID: <20071128153057.Q745@besplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <20071127035908.GA56560@keira.kiwi-computer.com> References: <200711260700.lAQ705ue012439@freefall.freebsd.org> <20071127035908.GA56560@keira.kiwi-computer.com>
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On Mon, 26 Nov 2007, Rick C. Petty wrote: > On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 07:00:05AM +0000, Bruce Evans wrote: >> doing this before successful completion. My regression tests haven't >> reported any failures from them but I think failures can occur for >> disk-full and I/O errors and the former is easy to test. > > Can't you test the latter using gnop? Not easily, since I've never hear of gnop. It's probably easily for me to edit the kernel. I suppose that for i/o errors we would want an error quite often but on not more than about 1% of syscalls. The errors should be recoverable by retrying and no utilitites should crash from them :-). Bruce
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