Re: (fwd) ext2 filesystem corruption, tool needed

Matthew Wilcox (Matthew.Wilcox@genedata.com)
Thu, 8 Jul 1999 09:42:41 +0200

On Thu, Jul 08, 1999 at 02:19:14AM +0200, Hermann Schichl wrote:
> However, I want to make a suggestion:
> By default ext2 ignores errors
> in filesystems; I think that it would be preferable to make remount ro
> or panic the default, since it will save people from losing too much
> data when they are not big filesystem specialists. (yes I know you can
> use tune2fs to change that, but who thinks about that when installing
> distribution XY on his server?)

perhaps you should change from distribution XY?

/dev/sda3 / ext2 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1

is what Debian installs by default.

-- 
Matthew Wilcox <willy@bofh.ai>
"Windows and MacOS are products, contrived by engineers in the service of
specific companies. Unix, by contrast, is not so much a product as it is a
painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subculture." - N Stephenson


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