Hello!
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 02:23:13PM -0400, Zygo Blaxell wrote:
> - If the device is detached while a filesystem is mounted, reiserfs gets a
> whole lot of I/O errors (or worse) and immediately oopses. It would be
> nice if reiserfs would handle this a bit more gracefully--it should at
> least let me kill processes with open files and umount the filesystem.
> OTOH many other things also oops with with current USB/firewire/scsi device
> driver stack too. :-P
Write errors to data areas are not mostly "safe".
It's write errors into journal area that kill the thing.
Jeff Mahoney of SuSE have the patch that remounts the FS R/O in
case of such an event (I think he even posted some preliminary patches
here), it is what you most probably need in this case.
Bye,
Oleg
