From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Oleg Drokin Subject: Re: reiserfs on removable media Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 10:08:36 +0400 Message-ID: <20030703060835.GA9411@namesys.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Zygo Blaxell Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com 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