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SubjectRe: ext3 on raid5 failure
Nigel Cunningham wrote:

> Hi.
>
> Are you using a swap partition or swap file? If we're talking swap file,
> I would suspect suspend2. I haven't had a chance to look yet (preparing
> to move to Aussie), but Michael has told me there are problems with the
> swapfile support.
>

You are reading everything, I beleave :-)
Nope, only a swap partition. I read swsusp ML too :-)

I really suspect the power failure (forgot to plug in the AC adapter :-)
) was the "hard off" with the FS corruption.

> If you had a crash while using suspend and swap file support, I wouldn't
> be totally surprised to see an emergency sync causing this. That said,
> the code has a number of safety nets aimed at stopping us syncing while
> suspend is running, to avoid precisely this sort of corruption. If it
> was suspend, I'd expect your superblock to have been messed too. Did
> that happen?
>

The superblock was fine. There was just a short file system check when
booting again. I only noticed it a day later when the news reader didn't
want to start anymore.

But thanks for thinking!

Regards,

Bas.


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