On Sat, 19 Jan 2002 12:13:20 +0100,
Knut J Bjuland <knutjbj@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>XFS seem to have problem when shutdown/loginout from gnome. XFS seems
>to mess up .ICEauthority and ~/.gnome/panel.d in a manner that make it
>impossible to login in gnome from GDM. There are a workaround by
>deleting .ICEauthority and restore these file from a backup. I then get
>my settings back. This problem does not affect latest CVS in
>linux-2.4-xfs.
If the system is crashing then you can get null data in recently
changed files, this is in the XFS FAQ.
There is a completely unrelated problem in flushing IDE drives before
suspend/shutdown that can give the same symptoms, even on a clean
shutdown. Andre Hendrick has been trying to get patches into the
kernel to ensure that IDE drives are flushed on shutdown.
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=101005576629982&w=2
People have reported similar symptoms with several filesystems when the
init scripts fail to flush the IDE caches on shutdown. hdparm -f on
each device might help.
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