Re: Repairing XFS

[Keith Owens <kaos@xxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 11:24:50 -0500, 
Jeremy Jackson <jerj@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote:
>
>> evolution, and the Interrupt took my box. The entire UI deadlocked, but
>> the box would still ping. =(.   No ssh, so I reset, and went to my
>
>Question for XFS guys - in general, would kernel Alt-SysRq-U make for a 
>"cleaner" crash?

Only if the ssytem is still capable of doing disk I/O.  Same with
sysrq-s.  Both issue the request then rely on the kernel being able to
do I/O.  Some crashes are so bad that nothing works.