At 17:29 11-6-2003 -0600, Michael Loftis wrote:
True...There may be situations where having the filesystem degrade into
nothing more than a semi-useful source of random entropy for PRNG may be ok :)
--On Wednesday, June 11, 2003 4:32 PM -0500 Austin Gonyou
<austin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Given the path of comments here. I'd say that's why the ext2 FS has 3
options for error handling! :)
The rootfs should remount ro so the box doesn't die instantly and takes
down the entire machine.
This is exactly what happened here once. The duplicate inode was not found
by tar but xfsdump did a bulkstat and noticed it. Because of this the
rootfs unmounted and caused all 40 users to be effectively kicked off the
machine which is not very nice.
In my opinion the rootfs should be the last to dissapear and be remounted
ro instead.
If the other volumes take a nose dive that's ok, but I _need_ to have at
least my root filesystem to fix something.
In this case the corruption must have been there for at least 6 months or
so and we didn't even notice. The rootfs is completely backuped every day
by tar which was not enough for XFS to notice it was there.
Cheers
--
Seth
It might just be your lucky day, if you only knew.
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