[lug] Read-only filesystem

[Gary Hodges]

Jeff Schroeder wrote:
> Gary wrote:
> 
>> When copying data to one of the disks I
>> will eventually get an error that says in part "cannot create regular
>> file" "read-only file system."
> 
> If there's a hardware failure in the hard drive, the kernel will 
> sometimes instruct 'mount' to change the filesystem to read-only in 
> order to prevent additional damage.  This might be what's happening; 
> check your kernel logs or even 'dmesg' to see if you're getting reports 
> of bad sectors or something along those lines.

Thanks for the reply.  I see these messages with dmesg:

[ 2890.878069] sd 6:0:2:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x8000002
[ 2890.878073] sdc: Current: sense key: Aborted Command
[ 2890.878075]     Additional sense: Scsi parity error
[ 2890.878081] end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 156253039
[ 2891.291088] REISERFS: abort (device sdc1): Journal write error in 
flush_commit_list
[ 2891.291094] REISERFS: Aborting journal for filesystem on sdc1