Re: file coruption on power fail

[Seth Mos <knuffie@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 14:10 25-3-2002 +0200, Ivan Ivanov wrote:
> Are there any chances for solving this problem.
>
> I have read all the faq and the XFS white paper.
> I have tried allmost all XFS patches from oss.sgi.com for various kernels
> and know that XFS logs only metadata updates.
> It is fast, has EA and ACL but when the system crashes for any reason most
> of the open files ( including opened ro ) are lost - for example
> XF86Config.

Bizarre, normally only files that have been written within 30 seconds 
before the crash could be affected, can you give some more details about 
the problem.

What kernel are you on?
What compiler did you use?
Can you describe your hardware?
Is it the machine that crashes or the power that fails?
If you see a panic or a oops can you parse it through ksymoops and send it 
to the list?

Cheers

--
Seth
Every program has two purposes one for which
it was written and another for which it wasn't
I use the last kind.