Subject: Re: zero-sized disks
To: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
From: Allen Briggs <briggs@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/02/2005 14:12:34
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 01:57:14PM -0500, der Mouse wrote:
> Now, this disk is obviously rather broken.  But it seems to me that
> panicking is not a correct response.  What do you people think?  Worth
> a PR, or is this a sufficiently drastic hardware failure that it
> doesn't really much matter what the kernel's reaction is?

I'd send a PR.  The kernel shouldn't panic.  It probably should
report and then largely ignore the disk, though.

-allen

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