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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@uni-koblenz.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
Cc: "ext3-users@redhat.com" <ext3-users@redhat.com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ext3-2.4-0.9.6
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 04:38:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010812043841.B8413@bacchus.dhis.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3B75DE86.EEDFAFFB@zip.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <3B75DE86.EEDFAFFB@zip.com.au>; from akpm@zip.com.au on Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 06:40:22PM -0700

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

  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-08-12  2:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-08-12  1:40 ext3-2.4-0.9.6 Andrew Morton
2001-08-12  1:46 ` ext3-2.4-0.9.6 Tom Rini
2001-08-12  1:55   ` ext3-2.4-0.9.6 Andrew Morton
2001-08-12  2:15     ` ext3-2.4-0.9.6 Tom Rini
2001-08-12  2:28       ` ext3-2.4-0.9.6 Andrew Morton
2001-08-12  2:47         ` ext3-2.4-0.9.6 Tom Rini
2001-08-12  4:58           ` ext3-2.4-0.9.6 Ben Collins
2001-08-13 18:15         ` ext3-2.4-0.9.6 Andreas Dilger
2001-08-12  2:38 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2001-08-12  3:10   ` ext3-2.4-0.9.6 Andrew Morton
2001-08-13 17:56   ` ext3-2.4-0.9.6 Stephen C. Tweedie

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