Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 May 1998 00:07:42 +0100 (BST) | From | Matthew Kirkwood <> | Subject | Re: FW: Corrupted filesystem |
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On Wed, 20 May 1998, Trevor Johnson wrote:
> > We experienced a system crash and the fsck upon reboot failed with > > the following message: > > > > Directory Inode 5, block 0, offset 0: directory corrupted > > Salvage <y>? > > By default, Linux uses write caching, meaning that data and directory > information isn't written immediately to disk. If you run /sbin/update, > then that information will be written out periodically. If you use the > "sync" option to mount (this is the default in *BSD), then the write
Careful! BSD synchronously writes only _metadata_ by default.
This seems to be a biennial<sp?> argument; ask the qmail list 8'}
Matthew.
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