David Brown wrote:
On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 09:11:29AM -0800, Lan Barnes wrote:
During the fires, we lost power and our Mailman server (FC6) ended not
cleanly. Now the image is refusing to boot -- kernel panic. I suspect
that
the superblock on the very-non-virtualized hard drive is corrupted.
My condolances. My personal experience is the the VMWare virtual drives
break all of the ordering constraints filesystems typically use to ensure
consistency.
Um, I thought he was plugging a "real" hard drive into a VMWare instance
to do the repair. ie. the VMWare instance is functioning like a LiveCd
for the purposes of repair.
And, VMWare only breaks the consistency guarantees for "soft" hard
drives. If the hard drive is a physical piece of hardware, all normal
guarantees are in effect.
-a
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