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Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 20:55:05 +0400
From: Roman Kurakin <rik@cronyx.ru>
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Robert Watson wrote:

>On Wed, 21 Jul 2004, Roman Kurakin wrote:
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>>How to change behavior? 
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>When we're in a "panic" state, we will no long attempt to call out to all
>file systems to synchronize their on-disk data with in-memory data.  This
>was unreliable in many circumstances because panic() can be called from
>some interesting places, such as in the scheduler, interrupt handlers, in
>the file system code, etc, and those circumstances were not conducive to
>  
>
But if we are in panic in a good place it may save some critical data. 
Is it possible to give
a choice to user?

[...]

rik