[PATCH] [JFFS2] load_xattr_datum need to return a positive number in case of unrecoverable error

[Artem Bityutskiy]

On Thu, 2012-04-26 at 23:09 +0200, Jean-Christophe DUBOIS wrote:
> Is this convincing enough?

Sure, thanks.

> You might think that the attibute corruption I am showing here is very 
> artificial but I can assure you that it does happen in the wild when you 
> get a power cut on your equipment while the GC was moving an attribute 
> node for example.

This issue is for sure worth fixing. Just make sure xattr corruption is
handled the same way as data node corruption is handled. I do not
remember a lot of details anymore, but I wrote you the main idea in the
previous e-mail.

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy
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