Re: Weird I/O errors with USB hard drive not remounting filesystemreadonly

[Alan Stern]

On Mon, 23 Nov 2009, Jan Kara wrote:

>   Yeah, from what you write, it looks like USB enclosure is at fault (or it
> could still be your USB controller but I doubt it).  It's still a bit
> bothering that the error reported by the drive was not properly propagated
> up to VFS. Either it's some block layer retry/ignore magic that I missed or
> we ignore errors from block layer in some place.

Is there any interest in tracking this down?  It's not hard to find out
what low-level errors are being reported and to generate them on demand
with an emulated USB disk drive.

Alan Stern

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