Re: ext3 on raid5 failure

From: Bas Mevissen (ml_at_basmevissen.nl)
Date: 02/04/04

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    Nigel Cunningham wrote:

    > Hi.
    >
    > Are you using a swap partition or swap file? If we're talking swap file,
    > I would suspect suspend2. I haven't had a chance to look yet (preparing
    > to move to Aussie), but Michael has told me there are problems with the
    > swapfile support.
    >

    You are reading everything, I beleave :-)
    Nope, only a swap partition. I read swsusp ML too :-)

    I really suspect the power failure (forgot to plug in the AC adapter :-)
    ) was the "hard off" with the FS corruption.

    > If you had a crash while using suspend and swap file support, I wouldn't
    > be totally surprised to see an emergency sync causing this. That said,
    > the code has a number of safety nets aimed at stopping us syncing while
    > suspend is running, to avoid precisely this sort of corruption. If it
    > was suspend, I'd expect your superblock to have been messed too. Did
    > that happen?
    >

    The superblock was fine. There was just a short file system check when
    booting again. I only noticed it a day later when the news reader didn't
    want to start anymore.

    But thanks for thinking!

    Regards,

    Bas.

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