On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 09:57:05AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> "Stephen C. Tweedie" wrote:
> >
> > if (maxsector < count || maxsector - count < sector) {
> > /* Yecch */
> > bh->b_state &= (1 << BH_Lock) | (1 << BH_Mapped);
> > ...
> > Folks, just which buffer flags do we want to preserve in this case?
> Why do we want to clear any flags in there at all? To prevent
> a storm of error messages from a buffer which has a silly block
> number?
That's the only reason I can think of. Simply scrubbing all the state
bits is totally the wrong way of going about that, of course.
> If so, how about setting a new state bit which causes subsequent
> IO attempts to silently drop the IO on the floor?
The only problem I could think of there would be weird interactions
with LVM if somebody lvextends a volume and the buffer suddenly
becomes valid again. I can't bring myself to care about breaking that
situation. :-)
--Stephen
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