ZFS kernel panic

Dag-Erling Smørgrav des at des.no
Wed Aug 29 03:28:03 PDT 2007


Max Laier <max at love2party.net> writes:
> This is complete nonsense!  As you pointed out earlier zfs doesn't
> know anything about the nature of the error.  There is only one
> sensible way to deal with a disk error - unless it is transient - and
> that is stopping all (write) access to the drive.  As you can't easily
> move a mounted drive with opened files into read-only mode, a panic is
> the only way to make sure.

Actually, remounting the disk read-only upon encountering a write error
is standard behaviour in Linux.

DES
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