From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Q] How to flush disk cache w/read-only filesystem w/o unmount&remount? (shared SAN filesystem)
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 15:41:33 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021106044133.GA15912@krispykreme> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021105084218.A15258@munet-d.enel.ucalgary.ca>
> You may be in luck - we likely need to have an ioctl to do this from
> e2fsck because the ext3 htree repacking of bad directories is causing
> a bunch of problems. In theory, the startup scripts should reboot the
> system in this case, but there have also been cases reported where
> people ran "e2fsck -D" on an ro-mounted root and then read-write mounted
> it again.
It would be great if we could avoid the reboot, the biggest machines
I have access to can take 45 minutes to to pass firmware checks. I
hate it when fsck finds and error and causes another reboot :)
Anton
prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-07 0:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-05 15:18 Jim Lawson
2002-11-05 15:42 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-11-06 4:41 ` Anton Blanchard [this message]
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