Re: ext3 seems to ignore ECC errors

From: Samuel Thibault
Date: Mon Aug 04 2008 - 11:47:38 EST


Andreas Schwab, le Mon 04 Aug 2008 17:39:06 +0200, a écrit :
> Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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?

Samuel
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