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SubjectRe: Linux Kernel 2.6.6 IDE shutdown problems.
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Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> On Saturday 15 of May 2004 14:20, Justin Piszcz wrote:
>
>>The problem is the 2.6.6 kernel muxed my drive and when it fscked upon
>>reboot it deleted /etc/mtab and lilo.conf!
>
>
> What fs are you using?
>
>
>>Luckily I restored them from a backup and now run 2.6.5 and it is working
>>fine.
>>
>>Linux 2.6.6 is a nightmare.
>>
>>I am looking into the benchmark problem with 2.6.6 now.
>>
>>--- In linux-kernel@yahoogroups.com, "Justin Piszcz" <jpiszcz@h...> wrote:
>>
>>>Now whenever I reboot it says input/output errors when it tries to mount
>>>the drive? I will look into this further.
>
>
> This errors are HARMLESS and CAN'T corrupt your data.
> Please see http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2672 for description+fix.

I would think that if the drive didn't properly flush cache on shutdown
that it might cause corruption. Feel free to tell me no drive would
bahave like that ;-)

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