Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 6 Dec 2000 16:50:56 +0100 (CET) | From | Tobias Ringstrom <> | Subject | Re: system hang and corrupt ext2 filesystem with test12-pre5 |
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On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Skip Collins wrote: > For now I am going to fall back to the slower ide bus. But I wanted to > let people know that there still may be problems with ext2 corruption in > the latest test kernel.
If your kernel halts, you should not be surprised if you get file system errors. You need a journalling filesystem to solve that, and even then, you will probably loose data. The magix sysrq can help you sometimes, but certainly not if your disk (controller) is stuck.
/Tobias
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