[NTLUG:Discuss] Drive becoming read-only after 40 minutes?!?

[Stephen Davidson]

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Fred wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 steve at sjbaker.org wrote:
>> booting SuSE 10.2 from a 300Gb 
>> UDB drive.  It boots OK, runs just fine for ~40 minutes then quite 
>> suddenly any access to the drive produces a message saying that I can't 
>> write to the drive because it's read-only?!
> 
> Welcome to Suse 10.2. That is a known bug, has to do with heavy
> disk activity. It was discussed at some length on the opensuse forum
> opensuse at opensuse.org
> 
> The problem is a device timeout. Try their suggestion:
> 
>  add the line "echo 120 > /sys/block/sda/device/timeout" to /etc/init.d/boot.local
> 
> Fred
> 
Something else to be aware of, USB (Flash) devices only have a limited
number of writes, something like 100K.  Fine for storing user files,
etc.  But for heavy writes (like system logs), tends to burn them out
pretty quickly.

Just something to consider.

Regards,
Steve

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