Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: [RFD] FS behavior (I/O failure) in kernel summit

Bernd Eckenfels
2005-06-15T20:29:52Z

In article <20050616.044045.26507987.okuyamak@dd.iij4u.or.jp> you wrote:
> # In other word, why can't I mount device which does not exist,
> # while I can re-mount them?

most likely because the error-case remount does only flip a bit in kernel
space and does not go through all the remount logic. Might be needed to flag
a device broken on global (non sector) errors.

Gruss
Bernd