Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 04 Feb 2004 12:38:13 +0100 | From | Bas Mevissen <> | Subject | Re: ext3 on raid5 failure |
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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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