linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 1/5] jbd: strictly check for write errors on data buffers

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Message-ID: <170fa0d20806042028r738795d2h6b6452ecb3e0f4b7@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 4 Jun 2008 23:28:09 -0400
From:	"Mike Snitzer" <snitzer@...il.com>
To:	"Theodore Tso" <tytso@....edu>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Jan Kara" <jack@...e.cz>,
	"Hidehiro Kawai" <hidehiro.kawai.ez@...achi.com>, sct@...hat.com,
	adilger@....com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, jbacik@...hat.com, cmm@...ibm.com,
	yumiko.sugita.yf@...achi.com, satoshi.oshima.fk@...achi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] jbd: strictly check for write errors on data buffers

On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 5:22 PM, Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu> wrote:

> That being said, ext3 can be tuned (and it is the default today,
> although I should probably change the default to be remount-ro), so
> that its behaviour on write errors is, "don't worry, be happy", and
> just leave the filesystem mounted read/write.  That's actually quite
> dangerous for a critical production server, however.....

I'm not completely sure which "it" you mean in "it is the default
today" (seems like you mean errors=continue) but isn't remount-ro
already the ext3 default?

see commit: 1eca93f9cafdec4a332ace9b0fc0d3886d430c28
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