>May I enquire as to the nature of the filesystems on these VMs? >It surprises me that a sudden inability to write to the block device >beneath is causing such hassle at the FS layer, ext3 upward (as is >standard under RH) has a pretty robust journal system. > >Maybe I've just been extremely lucky :)
Linux has a "feature" where it flips the file system to Read-Only if it detects a write error. I know it happens on ext4. Some UNIX systems mark the block as bad and keep running. Craig _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
