On Mon, 2002-08-26 at 13:45, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 01:10:36PM -0500, Chris Tooley wrote:
> > > Suspect he refers to the iBCS/Linux ABI patches for SCO etc. emulation.
> > > Christoph should know more about it, he used to maintain that stuff.
>
> I'm still looking after it.
>
> > > I doubt it can cause specific data corruption thought - read/write
> > > should be directly handed through to the linux implementations because
> > > there is not much to emulate there.
>
> *nod* - all emulations use write directly, and the only change in read for
> certain personalities is to allow read ond directories, returning sysvfs
> dirent.
>
> > > Point-Of-Sale sounds like it'll be often power cycled without proper
> > > shutdown. This could cause problems if the HD does write buffer a lot of
> > > data
> > > on its own. I would try applying the ordered writing patches or at least
> > > turn off the write cache of the HD.
> > >
> > The application is a linux application and runs in text mode only.
> > There is no gui. I can cause the same problems when I only allow ssh
> > access to it as well. That means no reseting because I don't restart
> > the server.
>
> Why do you need linux-abi then if it's a native application?
>
Because I'm mostly a moron. ;) It's a SCO application that only runs in text
mode.
Unfortunately it doesn't have these problems with ext2.
Chris Tooley
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