Re: Modified floppies can crash Linux (fwd)

Ricky Beam (root@defiant.interpath.net)
Sun, 29 Mar 1998 04:11:07 -0500 (EST)

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Letting the chips fall where they may, I quote David Woodhouse:
>Yes. Ext2 will panic the kernel even if it can't read a block on a floppy. I
>NEVER use ext2 floppies because of this.

Umm, man tune2fs...

...
-e errors-behavior
change the behavior of the kernel code when errors
are detected. errors-behavior can be one of the
followings:
continue Continue normal execution.
remount-ro Remount the filesystem read-only.
panic Causes a kernel panic.
...

Panic is the default. And ext2 is not very space efficient for a floppy.

--Ricky

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