[plug] aarrgh - file system becomes 'read-only'

[Richard Meyer]

Well, FWIW, I use the same distro as you, and I've never had that
problem (not even once). For what a negative datum is worth ....


On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 16:41 +0800, Gavin Chester wrote:
> I have an intermittent problem whereby every partition, for every user
> and root, becomes 'read-only' mid-flight and ... well, you can imagine
> the problems that causes :-( 
> 
> I suspect a hardware problem.  My PC is a Dell Precision 450 and I have
> two 36GB scsi drives connected to a Dell 53C1030 PCI-X Fusion-MPT Dual
> Ultra320 scsi adapter, such that they are seen as a single 72GB logical
> volume.  I run opensuse 10.1.
> 
> I am going to look and see if I can get a bios upgrade for this card and
> the MB, but meantime where would I look to see if my suspicion about
> hardware, rather than software, is correct.  That is, which would be the
> most likely log file, if it's logging that fault at all?
> 
> Also, in your collective wisdom, am I on track to suspect hardware
> becoming dodgy?  There is no consistent pattern to when it happens, but
> perhaps it seems most likely to be associated with having pushed the
> cpus and file I/O quite hard.  
> 
> Any ideas welcome.  BTW:  I can recover by rebooting and repairing the
> file system. 
> 
> Gavin 
> 
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