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

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Message-ID: <20080804154727.GV4470@implementation.uk.xensource.com>
Date:	Mon, 4 Aug 2008 16:47:27 +0100
From:	Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@...-lyon.org>
To:	Andreas Schwab <schwab@...e.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ext3 seems to ignore ECC errors

Andreas Schwab, le Mon 04 Aug 2008 17:39:06 +0200, a écrit :
> 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).

Oh, I had assumed it was on by default, hum.  But now it reads

Errors behavior:          Remount read-only

and I am still getting the same behavior.  Indeed after some VFS
modifications time it gets remounted read-only, but shouldn't that
happen as soon as possible?

Samuel
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