Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Mack Stevenson" <> | Subject | Re: Basic reiserfs question | Date | Sat, 08 Sep 2001 02:24:43 +0200 |
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Andreas,
>From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolabs.com> >To: Mack Stevenson <mackstevenson@hotmail.com> >CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, reiser@namesys.com, >nerijus@users.sourceforge.net >Subject: Re: Basic reiserfs question >Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 11:04:26 -0600 > >On Sep 07, 2001 13:38 +0200, Mack Stevenson wrote: > > >From syslog, referring to the last time I booted my machine: > > > > reiserfs: checking transaction log (device 03:02) ... > > Warning, log replay starting on readonly filesystem > > reiserfs: replayed 16 transactions in 4 seconds > > using r5 hash to sort names > > ReiserFS version 3.6.25 > > VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly. > >This clearly means that it is a "dirty" shutdown, because it is replaying >the journal log.
Right.
> > Should I worry if I don't get such messages whenever I boot? Or should I > > worry if I get those messages after (apparently) clean shutdown >procedures? > >It would be troublesome if you got the messages after a clean shutdown.
That's what happening (kernel 2.4.8), about 1 out of 5 times .
>This might mean that reiserfs is not syncing some journal buffers to disk >when the root filesystem is remounted read-only. Alternately, it may mean >that it is finding bogus transactions to replay in the journal (I don't >know how reiserfs determines whether the journal is clean or dirty). > >It may also mean that your disk claims to have written data to disk, but >then only puts it in cache and you power off before in actually writes it. >Do you have APM/ACPI power off after shutdown?
Yes, I run APM. Should I try disabling APM power off and manually doing so instead?
Thank you,
Mack
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