Messages in this thread | | | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: Linux Kernel 2.6.6 IDE shutdown problems. | Date | Mon, 17 May 2004 18:25:51 -0400 |
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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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