[ale] mounted filesystem becomes read-only

[Geoffrey]

Lightner, Jeff wrote:
> Crap because it's iSCSI or because it's Dell?

I thought he was referring to my post indicating it was a usb connected 
drive.

> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
> Geoffrey
> Sent: Friday, June 11, 2010 12:13 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
> Subject: Re: [ale] mounted filesystem becomes read-only
> 
> Jeff Hubbs wrote:
>> Yep - that's a SAN that's not worth a crap.
> 
> Amen.
> 
>> On 6/11/10 9:10 AM, Dennis Ruzeski wrote:
>>> Check out the command lsattr. You can make a FS ro with it even
> though
>>> mount will show it rw.
>>> Also, is that disk on a san? I'm seeing this happen randomly with our
>>> dell san connected via iscsi to the vmware server.
>>>
>>> --Dennis
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 8:31 AM, Greg
> Freemyer<greg.freemyer at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>    
>>>> sometimes if the kernel sees fs corruption it will internally set a
> fs
>>>> to readonly.
>>>>
>>>> check your kernel logs
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 8:12 AM,
> Geoffrey<lists at serioustechnology.com>  wrote:
>>>>      
>>>>> I don't get this.  I have a mounted file system that I just created
> a vm
>>>>> on via vmware player.  It's never been unmounted, yet if I try to
> create
>>>>> a file on it I get:
>>>>>
>>>>> touch foo
>>>>> touch: cannot touch `foo': Read-only file system
>>>>>
>>>>> More weirdness:
>>>>>
>>>>> root at mac/media/vmware>  mount|grep vmware
>>>>> /dev/sdb3 on /media/vmware type ext3 (rw)
>>>>>
>>>>> The OS clearly thinks it's a writable file system.
>>>>>
>>>>> Clues anyone?????
>>>>>
>>>>> I can't unmount it either as it says it's busy, and I'm pretty sure
> that
>>>>> has something to do with vmware:
>>>>>
>>>>> ps aux|grep vmware
>>>>> root      2837  0.0  0.0  18552   884 ?        Ss   Jun09   0:00
>>>>> /usr/bin/vmware-usbarbitrator
>>>>> root      2926  0.0  0.0  10980   156 ?        Ss   Jun09   0:00
>>>>> /usr/bin/vmnet-dhcpd -s 6 -cf /etc/vmware/vmnet1/dhcpd/dhcpd.conf
> -lf
>>>>> /etc/vmware/vmnet1/dhcpd/dhcpd.leases -pf
>>>>> /var/run/vmnet-dhcpd-vmnet1.pid vmnet1
>>>>> root      2949  0.0  0.0  10980   540 ?        Ss   Jun09   0:00
>>>>> /usr/bin/vmnet-dhcpd -s 6 -cf /etc/vmware/vmnet8/dhcpd/dhcpd.conf
> -lf
>>>>> /etc/vmware/vmnet8/dhcpd/dhcpd.leases -pf
>>>>> /var/run/vmnet-dhcpd-vmnet8.pid vmnet8
>>>>> root      2955  0.0  0.0   9116   964 ?        S    Jun09   0:37
>>>>> /usr/bin/vmnet-natd -s 6 -m /etc/vmware/vmnet8/nat.mac -c
>>>>> /etc/vmware/vmnet8/nat/nat.conf
>>>>> esoteric 14124  0.0  0.0   2852   780 ?        S<     Jun10   0:00
>>>>> /usr/lib/vmware/bin/thnuclnt -pdir
> /tmp/vmware-esoteric/thnuclnt-14114 -fg
>>>>> esoteric 14126  0.0  0.0  11304   980 ?        S<     Jun10   0:00
>>>>> /usr/lib/vmware/bin/thnuclnt -pdir
> /tmp/vmware-esoteric/thnuclnt-14114 -fg
>>>>> esoteric 14128  0.0  0.0  57468   248 ?        S<     Jun10   0:00
>>>>> /usr/lib/vmware/bin/thnuclnt -pdir
> /tmp/vmware-esoteric/thnuclnt-14114 -fg
>>>>> esoteric 14129  0.0  0.0  57472   224 ?        S<     Jun10   0:00
>>>>> /usr/lib/vmware/bin/thnuclnt -pdir
> /tmp/vmware-esoteric/thnuclnt-14114 -fg
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Until later, Geoffrey
>>>>>
>>>>> "I predict future happiness for America if they can prevent
>>>>> the government from wasting the labors of the people under
>>>>> the pretense of taking care of them."
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Until later, Geoffrey

"I predict future happiness for America if they can prevent
the government from wasting the labors of the people under
the pretense of taking care of them."
- Thomas Jefferson