Given the path of comments here. I'd say that's why the ext2 FS has 3
options for error handling! :)
On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 23:49, Michael Loftis wrote:
> Mostly I'd much prefer the option of just going R/O on a filesystem,
> living
> with the possibility that what I'm *reading* isn't right than a whole
> system just going black and having to get onself physically present to
> ascertain the problem.
>
> I don't believe that unmounting the filesystem is *always* the right
> thing
> to do. It is in some cases, but there are cases where you'd much
> rather
> the system just went read-only and refused to flush anything off to
> it.
>
> --On Wednesday, June 04, 2003 2:02 PM -0600 Andrew Mathews
> <andrew_mathews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > Michael Loftis wrote:
> >| This has also recently been a problem for us. The whole 'something
> >| looks a little odd so I'm going to just tank and take the whole
> system
> >| with me' knee-jerk reaction XFS has is very problematic. It's the
> >| biggest reason I'm moving operations away from it.
> >|
> >| --On Wednesday, June 04, 2003 20:26 +0200 Seth Mos
> <knuffie@xxxxxxxxx>
> >| wrote:
> >|
> >|> Hello,
> >|>
> >|> Upon a filesystem error the XFS filesystem normally unmounts the
> fs and
> >|> often takes the box along with it.
> >|> ...
> >|
> >| --
> >| Michael Loftis
> >| Modwest Sr. Systems Administrator
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> >
> > Not to diminish Set's original request, but to address this
> comment...
> >
> > I guess your term "knee-jerk reaction" is subjective. I'd much
> rather
> > have a recoverable system than an unrecoverable one, which is
> exactly
> > what you'll have if the filesystem is put into an unstable state
> > (corruption) and isn't intelligent enough to protect itself from
> further
> > damage. It's also one of the reasons we won't use anything other
> than
> > XFS in a production environment.
> >
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