[ale] mounted filesystem becomes read-only
Lightner, Jeff
jlightner at water.com
Fri Jun 11 12:37:40 EDT 2010
Crap because it's iSCSI or because it's Dell?
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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
>>>>
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>>>> the government from wasting the labors of the people under
>>>> the pretense of taking care of them."
>>>> - Thomas Jefferson
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