Loki Harfagr <[email protected]> posted [email protected], excerpted below, on Sun, 12 Jul 2009 09:20:30 +0200:
> On Sat, 11 Jul 2009 21:17:32 -0500 > Ron Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> But when vlc (really, an X bug) froze the system and I had to reboot, >> my tasks.nzb was littered with garbage. > > did you try to use SysReq+S (and other SRQ combos) and it failed? The standard Alt-SysRQ- S,U,B (That's sync-to-disk, remoUnt-ro (or just think of it as Unmount if you like), reBoot. It doesn't /always/ work, and Magic SysRQ is a kernel config option so some folks might not have it enabled in their kernel (or the default might be off), but when it's enabled and it /does/ work, it can save MANY the HUGE headache! For more details, /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sysrq.txt if your kernel sources are in the standard location, or google it: http://www.google.com/linux?lr=lang_en&hl=en&q=%22magic+sysrq%22 >> Grrrrr. >> >> Back to data=ordered for me!!!! > > well, why not ;-) That's why I'm warning people. I had my fill of data=writeback with reiserfs back before it got data=ordered as the default, and know the evils of data=writeback from first hand experience. That is, I'm sure, the biggest reason reiserfs has the reputation for lack of reliability it does, because back before data=ordered, it COULD and often DID eat people's files for breakfast! -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
