I too have experienced disk corruption following suspend to ram, which I
use on my NAS storage server in conjunction with PowerNap.  I have
observed this working in both Lucid and Natty over the last year.  In my
experience, this problem is not limited to external drives.  I have
observed corruption of my boot drive on three different internal SATA
controller cards in a Nehalem class X86 server.  These include a

* Highpoint Rocket 620 PCIe add in card running Bios Version 1.1
* LSI MPT SAS controller running in IT mode on a Supermicro S8DA3 motherboard 
running MPTSAS BIOS v 6.30.00.00 2009_11_12
* Old Promise SATA300 PCI add in card

Note that I am using all 6 of the ICH10 SATA ports for a RAID5 array, so
I do not know if this corruption ever occurs using the standard Intel
ICH10 SATA ports.  Perhaps that is why it is not reported more widely.

The corruption occurred most often when using the LSI SAS controller
(about 1 in 5 boots).  It occurs much less frequently on the Highpoint
Rocket 620 card, but it just happened for the first time yesterday after
about 2 months of testing.

I'm sorry I don't have fresh logs to post, but I had to get my system
back on-line ASAP.  I'll add logs the next time it happens if I can
scrape them out of the corrupted filesystem.

This is a very serious problem, and I am baffled that it is marked Low
priority.  It doesn't get much more grave than when your boot drive gets
corrupted every few months due to something not being right in the
syncing of disks going into and out of suspend to ram.

If Ubuntu is serious about power management in the upcoming Precise
release, this MUST be addressed.

Best Regards,

-Jim Heck

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  suspend and hibernate may cause data corruption because it doesn't
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