From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757441AbYHDQNJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Aug 2008 12:13:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751920AbYHDQM4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Aug 2008 12:12:56 -0400 Received: from ns.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:57979 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751852AbYHDQMz (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Aug 2008 12:12:55 -0400 From: Andreas Schwab To: Samuel Thibault Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ext3 seems to ignore ECC errors References: <20080804150353.GS4470@implementation.uk.xensource.com> <20080804154727.GV4470@implementation.uk.xensource.com> X-Yow: My DIGITAL WATCH has an automatic SNOOZE FEATURE!! Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:12:54 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20080804154727.GV4470@implementation.uk.xensource.com> (Samuel Thibault's message of "Mon, 4 Aug 2008 16:47:27 +0100") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110009 (No Gnus v0.9) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Samuel Thibault writes: > Andreas Schwab, le Mon 04 Aug 2008 17:39:06 +0200, a écrit : >> Samuel Thibault writes: >> > However, to my surprise Linux (2.6.26) continued to mount the ext3 >> > filesystem read/write, spitting out a lot of IDE errors. Shouldn't >> > filesystems remount read-only and let the admin try to save data in such >> > case? >> >> That's a tunable parameter of the filesystem, see tune2fs(8). > > Oh, I had assumed it was on by default, hum. But now it reads > > Errors behavior: Remount read-only > > and I am still getting the same behavior. Indeed after some VFS > modifications time it gets remounted read-only, but shouldn't that > happen as soon as possible? The block device may do some retries before passing the error on. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."