On Wed, Jun 25, 2025 at 10:44:57AM +0800, Yafang Shao wrote: > > That's really kernel wide policy and not something magic done by a > > single file system. > > XFS already supports an optional policy for handling metadata errors via: > /sys/fs/xfs/<disk>/error/metadata/ > > It would be reasonable to introduce a similar optional policy for data > errors: > /sys/fs/xfs/<disk>/error/data/ > > This data error policy could allow the filesystem to shut down immediately > if corrupted data is detected that might otherwise be exposed to userspace. I fully agree on that part, and would in fact argue for making it the default. But reporting writeback errors on read just on one file system and with a specific option is really strange.
