2.4.24 I/O error breakage

[Alex Bligh]

--On 06 July 2004 15:38 +0100 "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct at redhat.com> wrote:

> Right.  That has been the standard behaviour of ext2 and ext3 on certain
> critical corruptions for a long time.  On ext3, it is usually
> accompanied by log messages about the journal aborting; all future
> writes get the EROFS fs-is-readonly error.
>
> Of course, if this hits the partition with /var on it, your logs stop
> being recorded too.

Can this happen due to a /single/ corruption? I would have thought I
would see the controller/drive being reset and a retry or two before
this happened.

Time for serial console anyway I guess.

Alex