Re: [PATCH] btrfs: abort unlink trans in missed error case

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On 4/3/13 11:04 AM, Zach Brown wrote:
>>
>> I was wondering if the transaction support should just be in the
>> err: goto case, and went looking.
> 
> Yeah, it's tempting. In the end I decided against it because this
> shouldn't be so willing to freak out and make the file system read only.
> It should try and undo the partial unlink and if *that* fails it should
> go read only. I went for the minimal fix for now.
> 
>> I'm not familiar enough with this stuff yet, but what if i.e.
>> btrfs_delete_one_dir_name fails, should that also abort the
>> transaction?
> 
> It doesn't abort because its the first thing that can fail.  It can
> cleanly return an error without leaving partial state around.
> 
> - z
> 

Oh, sure.  thanks - 

Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx>
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