Re: [Qemu-devel] [6388] Stop VM on ENOSPC error.

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Anthony Liguori wrote:
>   
>>> The idea is that if the guest at least sees the I/O error, then it won't
>>> continue writing as if everything were OK. It may not be able to continue
>>> normal operation, but it can at least mark the FS read-only and avoid
>>> ongoing damage.
>>>       
>> This simply doesn't happen in practice.  The FS needs to write data to 
>> the disk in order to remount it read-only.  Once all writes start 
>> failing, the errors are cascading.
>>     
>
> ext2/3/4 have documented errors=remount-ro / errors=panic mount options.
>
> Don't they work?
>   

This was a sles10sp1 guest which uses reiserfs by default.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori