On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 08:37 -0500, adelmand wrote:
> http://www.opengroup.org/pubs/online/7908799/xsh/fdatasync.html
Maybe the coffee hasn't kicked in yet. Does it mean the disk itself
failed? Does it mean that for some reason, the writing of random data
or 1's or 0's failed?
No error number was returned, either, just "input/output error".
[...]
> Last night, he started up one of the 120GB disks. This morning, I see
> that it went through all four passes, however at some point during the
> night, things went wonky. The remaining lines that show in the terminal
> window all say:
>
> fdatasync failed: input/output error
>
> Does anyone know what this means?
>
> t.
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