On Mon, 2002-05-06 at 20:54, Manuel Krause wrote: > On 05/06/2002 09:12 PM, Daniel Christiansen wrote: > > > Everything seems to work by using the 3.x.1b version of reisfsck with > > --rebuild-tree. Thank you very much, Oleg, for taking the time to solve > > my problem. > > > > I don't know anything about the "write cache enabled" issue below. Is > > this something I have to change with a jumper, a bios setting, or a > > software configuration? > >
Most new IDE drives have this on by default. You can turn it off with hdparm -W 0, which will make you more able to withstand power failures. > > Or is it somekind of connected to Chris Masons thread "2.4.19-pre7 / > corruption on unwanted reboot"??? If Chris and Jens found bugs on IDE > interaction with ReiserFS they should really put out a patch soon... ;-) > > Chris M.? Is that related eventually? Just a doubt! I haven't been able to reproduce problems after a crash with pre7, but Dirk is not often wrong when we reports about a bug. If anyone can reliably reproduce I'd be grateful. -chris
