ioerror mount option

This mode sets the policy for handling I/O errors on a mounted file system. I/O errors can occur while reading or writing file data or metadata. The file system can respond to these I/O errors either by halting or by gradually degrading. The ioerror option provides five policies that determine how the file system responds to the various errors. All policies limit data corruption, either by stopping the file system or by marking a corrupted inode as bad.

The policies are as follows: