Re: filesystem suddenly read-only - how come?

["nate" <debian-user@aphroland.org>]

Erik Steffl said:
>  system: debian unstable, kernel 2.4.10
>
>  my /home filesystem was suddenly read-only, here' what I've found:

>  I mounted the filesystem, restarted xdm and everything looks ok...
>  any
> ideas on what's going on?

while i can't speak for 2.4.10 but 2.2 will remount a filesystem
readonly to prevent damage automatically if there is severe
disk errors. ive had it do it several times on disks that
were failing. although everytime it would say something in
the kernel log

"something something errors, remounting readonly"

nate