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Description of problem:
I was attempting to install supplemental packages in order to build and test my
s390 package.  I saw /usr and /usr/share were ro, so I remounted them rw.

mount -o rw,remount /usr worked for me, and things were written
successfully, were runable and then vanished or corrupted.

Conversation with LINUXATS@us.ibm.com

"This mount point is read only because it is shared between all users of the
same distribution. This mount point is mounted read-only by VM and can not be
changed by the user. It may appear that you can change it by altering the fstab
in your linux instance, however as I mentioned earlier VM has it mounted to your
instance as read only and altering the linux fstab will not over ride it."


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.4.9-38

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. create a large file system in one of the rw partitions ( in this case  / )
2.  ensure files are correct type, etc - file blah, md5sum blah
3.  remount a ro disk image rw
4.  sync data across I tried mv/cp/tar cf - . | ( cd/wherever; tar xvf -)/rsync.
5.  test files
6.   reboot

Actual Results:  Data "corrupted" (wrong file type etc).  This is due to inode
cache filling up with large transfer I guess.

Not present after reboot

Expected Results:  Not be able to mount rw - can someone clarify if the dasd
driver has enough information about an image to fail to mount rw

Additional info:


[root@l005068 home]# du -h -s /home/pauln/
126M    /home/pauln

[root@l005068 home]# cat /proc/meminfo
        total:    used:    free:  shared: buffers:  cached:
Mem:  124186624 69189632 54996992        0 22958080 22847488
Swap:        0        0        0
MemTotal:       121276 kB
MemFree:         53708 kB
MemShared:           0 kB
Buffers:         22420 kB
Cached:          22312 kB
SwapCached:          0 kB
Active:          44092 kB
Inact_dirty:       640 kB
Inact_clean:         0 kB
Inact_target:    32768 kB
HighTotal:           0 kB
HighFree:            0 kB
LowTotal:       121276 kB
LowFree:         53708 kB
SwapTotal:           0 kB
SwapFree:            0 kB

rsync -avP /home/pauln /usr/share/

[root@l005068 SOURCES]# file IBMJava2-SDK-131.s390.tgz
IBMJava2-SDK-131.s390.tgz: ASCII text, with no line terminators
[root@l005068 SOURCES]# file /home/pauln/rpm/SOURCES/IBMJava2-SDK-131.s390.tgz
/home/pauln/rpm/SOURCES/IBMJava2-SDK-131.s390.tgz: gzip compressed data,
deflated, last modified: Tue Jun 17 23:17:46 2003, os: Unix

You get following kernel messages:

Sense data:
dasd(eckd):device 1017 on irq 12: I/O status report:
dasd(eckd):in req: 06e86f00 CS: 0x00 DS: 0x02
dasd(eckd):Failing CCW: 06e86fa0
dasd(eckd):Sense(hex)  0- 7: 80 02 00 00 00 00 00 00
dasd(eckd):Sense(hex)  8-15: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
dasd(eckd):Sense(hex) 16-23: 00 00 00 00 00 f1 0f 00
dasd(eckd):Sense(hex) 24-31: 00 00 40 e2 00 00 00 00
dasd(eckd):24 Byte: 0 MSG 0, no MSGb to SYSOP
dasd_erp(3990): /dev/dasdc(94:8),1017@0xc:(EXAMINE) ERP chain report for req:
06e86f00
dasd_erp(3990): /dev/dasdc(94:8),1017@0xc:06e86f00: c5c3d2c4 00000000 0096ff00
06e86800
dasd_erp(3990): /dev/dasdc(94:8),1017@0xc:06e86f10: 00964000 00933a00 06e86f90
03000002
dasd_erp(3990): /dev/dasdc(94:8),1017@0xc:06e86f20: 00000000 ff000000 06e86f70
00000000
dasd_erp(3990): /dev/dasdc(94:8),1017@0xc:06e86f30: 00000000 00000000 0000011e
1a300000
dasd_erp(3990): /dev/dasdc(94:8),1017@0xc:06e86f40: b9c59e15 2b96f0c6 b9c59e15
2b96fa46
dasd_erp(3990): /dev/dasdc(94:8),1017@0xc:06e86f50: 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000
dasd_erp(3990): /dev/dasdc(94:8),1017@0xc:06e86f60: 00000004 00000020 0099cc70
00000000
dasd_erp(3990): /dev/dasdc(94:8),1017@0xc:Channel program (complete):
dasd_erp(3990): /dev/dasdc(94:8),1017@0xc:06e86f90: 63400010 06e86f70 47400010
06e86f80
dasd_erp(3990): /dev/dasdc(94:8),1017@0xc:06e86fa0: 85001000 03310000 00000000
00000000
dasd_erp(3990): /dev/dasdc(94:8),1017@0xc:06e86fb0: 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000
dasd_erp(3990): /dev/dasdc(94:8),1017@0xc:06e86fc0: 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000
dasd_erp(3990): /dev/dasdc(94:8),1017@0xc:Failed CCW (06e86fa0) already logged
end_request: I/O error, dev 5e:09 (dasd), sector 224
dasd_erp(3990): /dev/dasdc(94:8),1017@0xc:EXAMINE 24: Command Reject detected -
fatal error