Re: Still some corruption occurs on my root filesystem

[Michael Wahlbrink <x_miw@propack-data.com>]

Eric Sandeen wrote:
> 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?

So I can sleep now without thinking 'bout lost data.... ;-)
Thanks!

> 
> 
>>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. 


Ok, how to find out?? Should I forward/write something to the ataraid 
ML?? I'm not a kernel hacker, so I dont have any glue what ioctls are ;-)

thanx


regards
micha