Vasily Averin wrote:
SWsoft Virtuozzo/OpenVZ Linux kernel team has discovered that ext3 error
behavior was broken in linux kernels since 2.5.x versions by the following patch:
2002/10/31 02:15:26-05:00 [email protected]
Default mount options from superblock for ext2/3 filesystems
http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/gnupatch@3dc0d88eKbV9ivV4ptRNM8fBuA3JBQ
In case ext3 file system is mounted with errors=continue (EXT3_ERRORS_CONTINUE)
errors should be ignored when possible. However at present in case of any error
kernel aborts journal and remounts filesystem to read-only. Such behavior was
hit number of times and noted to differ from that of 2.4.x kernels.
I've also noticed this differing behavior,
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-ext4&m=115376966821953&w=2
It passed w/o comment. :)
Unless Ted had a specific reason for changing the behavior, 2.4 and 2.6
should probably be brought into line. Calling ext3_commit_super()
before the panic may defeat (some of) the purpose of the panic option,
though, which is to preserve as much state as possible at the time of
the error for later analysis...
-Eric
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