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From: Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com>
To: Zygo Blaxell <eazgwmir@umail.furryterror.org>
Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com
Subject: Re: reiserfs on removable media
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 10:08:36 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030703060835.GA9411@namesys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pan.2003.07.02.14.23.09.812119.20132@umail.hungrycats.org>

Hello!

On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 02:23:13PM -0400, Zygo Blaxell wrote:

> - If the device is detached while a filesystem is mounted, reiserfs gets a
> whole lot of I/O errors (or worse) and immediately oopses.  It would be
> nice if reiserfs would handle this a bit more gracefully--it should at
> least let me kill processes with open files and umount the filesystem.
> OTOH many other things also oops with with current USB/firewire/scsi device
> driver stack too.  :-P

Write errors to data areas are not mostly "safe".
It's write errors into journal area that kill the thing.
Jeff Mahoney of SuSE have the patch that remounts the FS R/O in
case of such an event (I think he even posted some preliminary patches
here), it is what you most probably need in this case.

Bye,
    Oleg

      parent reply	other threads:[~2003-07-03  6:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-02 18:23 reiserfs on removable media Zygo Blaxell
2003-07-02 18:45 ` Andreas Dilger
2003-07-02 18:53   ` Hans Reiser
2003-07-02 18:59     ` Chris Mason
2003-07-02 19:08       ` Dieter Nützel
2003-07-02 19:17         ` Chris Mason
2003-07-02 20:19     ` Zygo Blaxell
2003-07-03  2:02   ` Recipe for reiserfs oops on "removable" disks (was: Re: reiserfs on removable media) Zygo Blaxell
2003-07-03  6:08 ` Oleg Drokin [this message]

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