It depends. If everything is working right, and you shut down the system in an orderly manor then you should not have a corruption from minidisk caching. It does interfere with journaling, which could result in corruption if the system crashes, or if you force the machine to logout from VM (my terminology may be wrong).
-----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ranga Nathan Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2005 6:58 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: A file corruption causing system hang (Linux guest) Yes. I am seeing some strange corruptions. Is it anything to do with minidisk caching? __________________________________________ Ranga Nathan / CSG Systems Programmer - Specialist; Technical Services; BAX Global Inc. Irvine-California Tel: 714-442-7591 Fax: 714-442-2840 "Fargusson.Alan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: Linux on 390 Port <[email protected]> 07/27/2005 03:22 PM Please respond to Linux on 390 Port <[email protected]> To [email protected] cc Subject Re: A file corruption causing system hang (Linux guest) Are you running reiserfs? -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ranga Nathan Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2005 3:12 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: A file corruption causing system hang (Linux guest) In six years of working with Linux I have not seen this happen. I have not seen any one thing or process that brought the system down. So I am really surprised. There is no report of any kernel panic. __________________________________________ Ranga Nathan / CSG Systems Programmer - Specialist; Technical Services; BAX Global Inc. Irvine-California Tel: 714-442-7591 Fax: 714-442-2840 John Summerfied <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: Linux on 390 Port <[email protected]> 07/27/2005 01:52 PM Please respond to Linux on 390 Port <[email protected]> To [email protected] cc Subject Re: A file corruption causing system hang (Linux guest) Ranga Nathan wrote: > We are running SuSE 9 on a guest under z/VM 5.1. I have been getting a > message from the cron daemon about a problem with the "updatedb" script. > On investigation I found that this script file was corrupted at the end. > My attempts to rsync and edit caused this guest to hang. I had to re-IPL > it many times. When I deleted this file and tried to rsync it from > another, it hung as I was typing. > > I found some file corruptions on the root file system (reiserfs). I can > not believe that a file corruption could hang Linux. I have never seen > this happen. Why on earth not? If linux can't read bits of itself, why would it not fail? -- Cheers John -- spambait [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tourist pics http://portgeographe.environmentaldisasters.cds.merseine.nu/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
