On Thursday, April 14, 2011 04:54:34 PM Lamar Owen wrote: > On Thursday, April 14, 2011 10:37:15 AM Christopher Chan wrote: > > I used XFS extensively when I was running mail server farms for > > the mail queue filesystem and I only remember one or two incidents when > > the filesystem was marked read-only for no reason (seemingly - never had > > the time to find out why) but a reboot fixed those. > > I've had that happen, recently, with ext3 on CentOS 4. The default behaviour for ext3 on CentOS-5 is to remount read-only, as a safety measure, when something goes wrong beneath it (see mount option "errors" in man mount). The root cause can be any of a long list of hardware or software (kernel) problems (typically not ext3's fault though). /Peter -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110414/b60e46b6/attachment-0003.sig>