On 03/16/2016 12:18 PM, Jan Stattegger-Sievers wrote: > Hi, > > for the second time we ran into this problem and lost again data on > several servers. First time, we assumed a firmware update we ran before > the reboot to be the cause. > > This time, there was no firmware update and we looked further into this, > knowing now this is no singular issue. And it turns out: On every kexec > reboot you will loose data, if your servers are doing a significant > amount of work shortly before the reboot, since no umount is done > before the new kernel kicks in. > > This definitely needs a fix! > > Since the proposed fix changes the behavior of reboot and shutdown -r I > am cc'ing systemd-sysv maintainers. > > Regards, > Jan >
I have managed to reproduce this problem on a test system. I am working on a fix. -- Khalid
