Re: recovery failed after power off

[Christian Thalinger <twisti@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2002-08-01 at 03:57, Stephen Lord wrote:
> So are you running IDE with write caching turned on? Any journaled
> filesystem is going to have issues with a write cache enabled
> drive if you drop the power on it. In order to work a journaled
> file system has ordering constraints between log writes and 
> metadata writes. A drive write cache can cause these constraints
> to be broken - a metadata write was probably still in cache and
> the relevant log space was overwritten on disk.
> 
> Steve
> 

Yep, IDE drive with write cache. Sorry, i could guess it myself. Without
write cache recovery seems to be ok. Now i have to find out how to
disable write cache of IDE drives on a 3ware controller ;-)

Regards.