Eric Sandeen wrote:
On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 11:08, James Rich wrote:
I looked at what was created in lost+found and was easily able to put
things back in the right places. Just the highest level directory
structure had been lost (i.e. the connections to /) so it was easy to just
mv 3145688 /etc.
Ok, good to know.
The original error would be most helpful, along with anything you can think
of that could have contributed to the problem... (Any odd configuration,
patches, hardware, etc?)
No oops or anything. A complete description of the hardware is at
www.supermicro.com. I did a shutdown -h now and on restarting it the
machine paniced right after mounting /. The kernel is checked out from
CVS as of a few days ago.
This sounds like the IDE-write cache does not flush before power off
problem. There is a "fix" to this in some systems that has the shutdown
process, after syncing/unmounting stuff do a powerdown of the IDE
drives to force them to write their caches before doing a shutdown
of the ATX power supply via APM/APCI.
You may wish to look into changing the write cache settings in the
drives (albeit they don't always listen to what you ask) or, even
better, to get your shutdown process to do the drive poweroff
(hdparm is your friend)
I think there is work going into the kernel to help with this but
most of shutdown is actually handled/managed from userland.
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