Re: ext3-2.4-0.9.6

Ralf Baechle
2001-08-12T02:40:18Z

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