Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 7 Jan 1997 09:19:29 -0400 (AST) | From | William Burrow <> | Subject | Re: Floppy problem |
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On Mon, 6 Jan 1997, Greg Alexander wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Dec 1996, Alain Knaff wrote: > > problem. Some filesystems (minix ?) seem to not handle this situation > > gracefully, and panic if they get any errors. Others (ext2 ?) do it > > the correct way, and just remount themselves readonly if a "fatal" > > error occurs. This prevents further corruption to the disk, but still > > allows the user to work with other parts of the system. > > This is not always true. At one time I had an ext2fs that was in my mtab > to be mounted under /scrap. It had no important files in it and, [...] > fsck), I got a panic from this situation and I had to boot from a floppy > too modify /etc/mtab. ext2 does _not_ always handle errors in an > admirable way.
If you check my latest experiments with 2.0.23, you will find that *only* ext2fs has problems with handling a filesystem that has gone away. Ext2 remounts the fs as read-only, but any attempt to reference the fs results in D state processes.
-- William Burrow -- Fredericton Area Network, New Brunswick, Canada Copyright 1997 William Burrow This line left intentionally blank. And the one below it.
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