Re: ext3-2.4-0.9.6

Ralf Baechle (ralf@uni-koblenz.de)
Sun, 12 Aug 2001 04:38:41 +0200


On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 06:40:22PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:

> - ext3 has for a long time had developer code which allows the target device
> to be turned read-only at the disk device driver level a certain number
> of jiffies after the fs was mounted. This is to allow scripted testing
> of crash recovery. This facility has been extended to support two devices;
> one for the filesystem and one for the external journal device.

Would this facility also be able to deal with parts of a device becoming
read-only unexpectedly? Some of the disks I have in RAIDs have the
nice habit of disabling write access when overheating. That's an
interesting failure scenario in a RAID system.

Ralf
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