On Mon, 2 May 2005, c0ldbyte wrote:
I have a HDD Post Write Buffer in the BIOS according to the MB manual
although the disks aren't connected to the MB controllers they are on RAID
5 set off a PCI-X card. Will give it a go tomorrow ( drag the monitor
back to the rack ). Will this have
So sounds like this does need a bit of looking at. The key thing is
both reboot and halt always leave the machine FS in a good state
where as shutdown -p doesnt so is there something that -p skips?
Or is it simply the fact that it powers down?
Steve
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From: Danny
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 01:39:23PM +0100, Steven Hartland wrote:
So sounds like this does need a bit of looking at. The key thing is
both reboot and halt always leave the machine FS in a good state
where as shutdown -p doesnt so is there something that -p skips?
Or is it simply the fact that
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On Mon, 2 May 2005, Steven Hartland wrote:
Kris Kennaway wrote::
Surely thats what the buffer sync is doing. Watching the console both
these actions appear to be doing identical things but the end results
are quite different :( buffers are always under
On Mon, 2 May 2005, c0ldbyte wrote:
I have a HDD Post Write Buffer in the BIOS according to the MB manual
although the disks aren't connected to the MB controllers they are on RAID
5 set off a PCI-X card. Will give it a go tomorrow ( drag the monitor
back to the rack ). Will this have any
Seems like doing a shutdown -p now on the current
5.4-STABLE branch is resulting in FS corruption.
I've done this 4 times now and all but 1 time the
machine has failed to boot with a panic:
mod=0100600, inum=1271817, fs=/var
panic: ffs_valloc: dup alloc
cpuid = 0
boot() called on cpu#0
The only
On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 03:38:49AM +0100, Steven Hartland wrote:
Seems like doing a shutdown -p now on the current
5.4-STABLE branch is resulting in FS corruption.
I've done this 4 times now and all but 1 time the
machine has failed to boot with a panic:
mod=0100600, inum=1271817, fs=/var
Kris Kennaway wrote:
On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 03:38:49AM +0100, Steven Hartland wrote:
Why would FS's be being corrupted by shutdown -p now where
as reboot doesnt seem to?
Maybe the machine is being powered down before your disks have
finished writing their data to disk.
My ThinkPad has done
Kris Kennaway wrote::
Surely thats what the buffer sync is doing. Watching the console both
these actions appear to be doing identical things but the end results
are quite different :( buffers are always under 5 usually 2 and its not
like there's been a great deal of activity. The last test I did
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