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Date:      Wed, 29 Aug 2007 12:27:57 +0200
From:      =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
To:        Max Laier <max@love2party.net>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org>, Pascal Hofstee <caelian@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: ZFS kernel panic
Message-ID:  <86absa3aaa.fsf@ds4.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <200708282324.05834.max@love2party.net> (Max Laier's message of "Tue\, 28 Aug 2007 23\:23\:56 %2B0200")
References:  <20070828211440.470805B3B@mail.bitblocks.com> <200708282324.05834.max@love2party.net>

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Max Laier <max@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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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no



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