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Re: Respawn crashed PUFFS filesystems?



On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 07:12:25AM +0100, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> I thought that we could respawn a crashed userland filesystem, lookup
> all active vnodes again, and redo all operations failed at crash time.
> That way a crashed filesystem would  just cause a delay in ongoing
> operations, but it would not even cause a failure. Does it makes sense?

Please also consider the problem that it might be a persistent problem, i.e. 
crash immediately or quite soon again.
 Thomas


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