Odd Filesystem Issue

[Frank Tanner III]

On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 18:19 -0500, Jim Cornette wrote:
> Frank Tanner III wrote:
> > Has anyone else had an issue with, after a random interval, the file
> > system going Read Only and having to reboot to resolve the issue?
> > 
> > I'm on a fresh install of FC6 using the "factory" non-Xen kernel.  EXT-3
> > is the file system
> > 
> > I've searched on Google and haven't seen anyone posting anything about
> > this, but I figured that I would check the list.
> > 
> > Any assistance that anyone could give me would be greatly appreciated.
> > 
> > Thank you.
> 
> I've had several times where the filesystem would go read-only during a 
> transaction or just when the computer is left on for awhile. My problem 
> happened back with FC5 also and only to the LVM for /. The traditional 
> partitions don't seem to have the read-only failures.
> 
> In windows, I see a raw data drive for the LVM for / on the installation 
>   that sometimes goes to read-only. An 'fsck -y -c 
> /dev/hda5vol/LogVol00' usually finds illegal inode entries and corrects 
> the errors whenever it happens.
> I don't know if visibility in windows has anything to do with the 
> problem, but what windows sees, it usually troubles in some way.
> 
> Are you using an LVM setup or did you partition with regular partitions?
> 
> Jim
> 

LVM, which is how FC does it by default.  Is this something with LVM
that needs to be in Bugzilla?

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