Re: Still some corruption occurs on my root filesystem

[Steve Lord <lord@sgi.com>]

On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 09:02, Michael Wahlbrink wrote:
> Eric Sandeen wrote:
> > On Wed, 22 May 2002, Michael Wahlbrink wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>>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!
> > 
> > 
> > Well... if you shut down your system cleanly, you should not be doing
> > recovery, so something is still not right (assuming that the messages
> > you posted were after a normal shutdown).
> > 
> 
> It was a normal shutdown, :-(
> ...and it also did't disappear if I had rebooted the mashine a few 
> times. It disappeared if I started a repair from my "repairsystem". 
> Let's see how it's going on ....
> 

One possibility here is the ide cache is not getting flushed
during shutdown - although that would only be an issue on
power down I think. If you just reboot without powering down
it should survive.

Steve (not an ide driver expert)


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