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Re: [ts-7000] read-only file system

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Subject: Re: [ts-7000] read-only file system
From: Clark Dunson <>
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 17:04:35 -0700
One more thing.  You need to set the 'noatime' flag on the '/var'  
entry for jfs in /etc/fstab.  Otherwise your system will become  
burdened by a lot of SD writes you don't need, and the life of your  
SD card might be shortened.


On Sep 1, 2011, at 3:33 PM, Don Tucker wrote:

> This does not appear to have been a proble


> m for anyone, but if it becomes a problem for someone in the  
> future, this is what I believe is happening.  I think that jfs  
> mounts the root file system as read only in the event that it  
> detects the file system as bad.  I'm not sure what the normal  
> behavior for a rootfs with jfs is, because there is no entry in / 
> etc/fstab for "/" on my board.  My proposed solution is to attempt  
> to touch a file in /etc/rc.local, and if there is a failure (e.g.  
> "touch: cannot touch 'testfile': Read-only file system"), then  
> reboot forcing fsck (i.e. "shutdown -rF now").
>
> Don
>
> On 8/29/2011 5:23 PM, Don Tucker wrote:
>>
>> I've noticed that sometimes my TS-7260, booting to an SD card with  
>> a Debian file system, will sometimes return errors during file  
>> writes, reporting that the file system is read-only.  I think this  
>> might happen if the the system hasn't been properly shutdown, but  
>> I haven't been able to consistently reproduce the behavior.  Can  
>> anyone explain a possible reason for why I'm seeing this?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Don
>>
>



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