On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 05:33:48AM -0700, fe...@crowfix.com wrote:
> I have been using encfs to store most of my home dir for ages. I rebooted
> Sunday morning (it's a ~amd64 system) to change kernel to 3.3.5 from 3.3.4,
> and sometime overnight, after the nightly backups and mail archives had run,
> the encfs mounted partition became read-only. I know the timing only by the
> cron jobs; the nightly mail backup moves files from the /home partition to
> the encfs partition, and it had not failed. I unmounted the encfs partition,
> remounted, and it was read-only right from the get go.
It's a failing disk drive:
May 15 03:30:26 kernel: [80220.600747] hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 {
DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
May 15 03:30:26 kernel: [80220.600759] hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 {
UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=94761183, sector=94761183
May 15 03:30:26 kernel: [80220.600788] hda: possibly failed opcode: 0x25
May 15 03:30:26 kernel: [80220.600794] end_request: I/O error, dev hda,
sector 94761183
May 15 03:30:26 kernel: [80220.600835] REISERFS error (device hda5):
vs-13070 reiserfs_read_locked_inode: i/o failure occurred trying to find stat
data of [2511 633054 0x0 SD]
May 15 03:30:26 kernel: [80220.600840] REISERFS (device hda5): Remounting
filesystem read-only
May 15 03:30:31 kernel: [80224.859713] hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 {
DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> There are no errors in /var/log/messages of any sort since the 3.3.5 boot.
> The mount command showed both the encfs partition and the underlying regular
> partition as rw, not ro.
I didn't see it the first time because I rebooted twice and only looked since
the second reboot, after spending a while googling for hints and forgetting
about the double reboot.
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