Date: 26 Jan 2003 14:24:02 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.berkeley.edu> Cc: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I've just had a massive file system crash Message-ID: <1043553241.85148.191.camel@chowder.dons.net.au> In-Reply-To: <20030125213859.GB6339@HAL9000.homeunix.com> References: <20030125070352.GA933@HAL9000.homeunix.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0301251048090.79988-100000@root.org> <20030125213859.GB6339@HAL9000.homeunix.com>
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On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 08:08, David Schultz wrote: > Good. I was referring to IDE in this case, because I assume > that's what Greg's laptop uses. The ATA driver flushes the cache > when the device is closed, but I don't think that happens during > shutdown. It probably needs to register a shutdown hook like the > SCSI driver. Also, the driver is a bit optimistic about how long > the flush will take; it times out after 5 seconds, whereas the ATA > spec says a flush can take up to 30 seconds. I am wondering if I experienced this problem with my -stable laptop.. I shut it down and then booted it up later to find fsck having a nice good chew on the drive (deleting REAMS of files). I stopped it and then ripped it out of the lappy and mounted it read only to recover most of my files. Lots of things in /etc got toasted, and it was rather annoying to recover from :( -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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