Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 17 Sep 2001 12:45:00 +0200 | From | Guus Sliepen <> | Subject | Re: Disk errors and Reiserfs |
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On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 01:40:36AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Is it possible for the kernel to handle this with enough grace that you > > can kill the processes and unmount the partition? (Thus allowing the box > > to continue in a hobbled, but function manner.) Failing that, is it > > possible for the kernel to handle it well enough for 'shutdown' to cleanly > > shutdown the box? > > Killing the process isnt neccessary, its been halted in its tracks. As to > a clean shutdown - no chance. You've just hit a disk failure, the on disk > state is not precisely known, writes have been lost. Nothing is going to > make a clean shutdown possible under such circumstances.
Of course. But I did notice that (for ext2) the filesystem dirty flag is not set if there are errors from the underlying block device, only when it actually detects some corruption. So these errors will not trigger an appropiate response like remounting read-only or fscking on reboot.
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