Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 08:00:23 -0500 (CDT)
From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sgi.com>
To: Michael Wahlbrink <x_miw@propack-data.com>
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Subject: Re: Still some corruption occurs on my root filesystem
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On Wed, 22 May 2002, Michael Wahlbrink wrote:

> Hi,
> Got the data back with the xfs_progs from cvs.
> 
> All works fine with disabled writecache on the IDE HDDs, untill I saw a 
> few reboots later that there was corruption on my root fs again :-(. 
> This corruption will not cause the system to hang, but ...... you know....
> 
> here's a snippet from my log:

The only thing here is "normal" log recovery, nothing that should indicate
corruption.  I assume that this is after what claims to be a  clean shutdown?

> And what about the "Invalid ioctl" messages I get aometimes since I use xfs?

Probably the BLKSETSIZE ioctl, perhaps your raid driver doesn't implement
it?  I wonder if this could be part of the problem... at one point it looked
like this was harmless. 

-Eric