On Fri, 14 Jun 2013, James Harper <james.harper@bendigoit.com.au> wrote:
Could be. The cause doesn't necessarily matter to me, I know these things happen, what matters is whether my server stays up when a non-essential filesystem has some errors.
Unix just doesn't seem to be designed that way. Consider the case of NFS mounts which block everything on any network outage. When running the latest KDE if you have an NFS server become unresponsive then it causes most of the desktop environment to become unusable too, even if the NFS mount was under /mnt (IE not in the path and not used by most programs). Then there are lots of other programs which take note of mount points and do unexpected things. For example Dovecot wants you to run a doveadm command when you change mounted filesystems. Can Ext3/4 be run as a FUSE filesystem? -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/