Subject: Re: filesystem code should not panic
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
From: Jaromir Dolecek <dolecek@ics.muni.cz>
List: tech-kern
Date: 11/23/1999 18:07:26
Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> Aggred for user mounts but I want to keep the possibility for root
> mounts
> to stop the machine when a FS goes bad. Keeping the machine running
> without an
> important FS can have bad consequences (think mail servers ...).

What if it's hardware fault, which won't go away after 
reboot ? If you keep the machine running, it can send all sorts
of alert to anywhere its desirable and return temporary errors
to e-mail originators - once you panic, your machine is not available
at all anymore and it may take much longer to notice.

Jaromir