linux-kernel - Re: ext3 seems to ignore ECC errors

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Message-ID: <je8wvczt5x.fsf@sykes.suse.de>
Date:	Mon, 04 Aug 2008 17:39:06 +0200
From:	Andreas Schwab <schwab@...e.de>
To:	Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@...-lyon.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ext3 seems to ignore ECC errors

Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@...-lyon.org> 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).

Andreas.

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