Bug#430350: Please use errors=remount-ro, not errors=continue

[brian m. carlson]

Please choose errors=remount-ro, not errors=continue, since choosing the latter may silently corrupt the filesystem. IME, by the time the kernel complains about a filesystem, something is very, very wrong, and blithely continuing is almost certainly a bad move.

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Furthermore, I'm not sure if hal should be overriding the choice of the filesystem, if it is set to panic. I can see the argument for not bringing down a machine if a removable device is inserted, since that's a DoS. However, if it's a fixed disk, then it's probably a good idea to allow the superblock to take precedence. So please only use errors=remount-ro on removable disks, and let non-removable (fixed) disks choose their own default.

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