Hi: with Mandrake 8.1 and XFS, i often need to copy kdmrc from other 8.1 machines, to make my X start again after inproper shutdown. but 8.2 with XFS seems OK so far, i now shutdown my PC directly everyday when running X(just for testing...)... so far so good...
Regards, tbsky > On Thu, 2002-03-28 at 07:26, Guy Zelck wrote: > > ---snip--- > >> Interesting thread I thought to post my troubles with XFS to. >> When I installed md8.1 on my home system I went from reiserfs, which >> never gave me trouble, to using xfs which I knew from work having it >> on our Silicon Graphics machine. I also read a lot about it and for >> speed and features it seemed the best and having a high esteem for >> SGI I did not hesitate. >> >> Nevertheless I've experienced about 4 times so far the following (I >> have an IDE system disk 'quantum fireball' of 8GB): >> Every time there's a power cut I find a lot of files corrupted. >> Instead of their original contents they contain nothing but ^@ >> (viewed with vim) characters. The files concerned are e.g. all the >> KDE config files of apps that were open at the time of the power cut, >> but I once had inittab & message affected too. You can imagine that >> KDE wouldn't start after that in the 1st case and the whole system >> was fucked in the 2nd. This for me is totally unacceptable and I >> don't dare to imagine what this would mean for a company's production >> machine. > > Your results are interesting. But as in most other things it's > important to have a reference point(s) for comparison. So I've got some > questions: > > 1) What is the history of this hardware with relation to the previously > installed scheme(s)? (what filesystem, Linux version, Win version) > > 2) Can you recall crashes under other circumstances that did not > involve XFS in any way? (under this hardware config) Focus a little on > hard drive history, as well as everything else. > > 3) What is the hardware's history with respect to diagnostics and > tests? Has the memory been checked, dos diagnostics run, cpu checked.. > > If not, has the hardware got a respectable history of problem free > operation under the previous OS? yay or nay...plus some details would > be nice. > > >> My technical knowledge in this field is not sufficiant enough to >> pinpoint what exactly is the cause: the version of xfs included in >> 8.1, the way f.s. are checked (or not checked) on boot-up? I don't >> know. I've read before that journaling file systems didn't need to be >> fsck'ed but why do you find a fsck for reiser & xfs then? Mar 25 >> All I see in the messages file is this : >> 22:57:40 gz kernel: Start mounting filesystem: ide0(3,6) >> Mar 25 22:57:40 gz kernel: XFS: WARNING: recovery required on readonly >> filesystem. >> Mar 25 22:57:40 gz kernel: XFS: write access will be enabled during >> mount. Mar 25 22:57:40 gz kernel: Starting XFS recovery on filesystem: >> ide0(3,6) (dev: 3/6) >> Mar 25 22:57:40 gz kernel: Ending XFS recovery on filesystem: >> ide0(3,6) (dev: 3/6) >> >> I'd be glad to learn more around this from active users of xfs since I >> sure would like to remedy this 'russion roulete' situation. >> >> See ya, >> Guy. > > Thanks and Regards, > > LX > > -- > ��������������������������������������������������
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