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FromJuri Haberland <>
SubjectRe: file system unmount
DateWed, 23 Jan 2002 12:21:37 +0100 (CET)
In article <65256B4A.003D4CD1.00@sandesh.hss.hns.com> you wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi,
> I am using softdog in my application. One of the problems I am facing is,
> when the system comes up after the reboot forced by softdog, file system gets
> corrupted and fsck has to check. Some times fsck fails to force check the file
> system and
> the system enters in to run level 1, leading to manual intervention.
> 
> Any idea how to unmount the file system before the system is rebooted by
> softdog, so
> that system always comes up properly without manual intervention.

Bad idea. The point in using a watchdog is that you want to *reliably*
reboot your failed machine. What if your umount hangs for some reason?
(I've seen this...)

Use a journalling filesystem instead.

Juri

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Juri Haberland  <juri@koschikode.com> 
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