Messages in this thread | | | From | Ricky Beam <> | Subject | Re: Modified floppies can crash Linux (fwd) | Date | 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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