Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Nov 2005 16:41:25 +0100 | From | Jan Niehusmann <> | Subject | Re: Laptop mode causing writes to wrong sectors? |
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On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 03:27:00PM +0100, Bart Samwel wrote: > OK, that's the second report then. I'm beginning to worry. :/
And I'm not feeling so lonely any more ;-)
> Bradley, Jan, since when have these problems been happening? Kernel > version-wise, I mean?
I didn't notice these problems before 2.6.14. As these corruptions are not happening very often, and as I usually do not run the notebook on battery power, the problem may have existed for a while, though.
Today I did a simple test: I activated laptop mode with a 10s idle timeout, and made a script write files with uniqe identifiers, followed by a sync, every 60 seconds. After nearly an hour, I didn't see any corruption, though at least some of these writes have triggered a spin-up. When I have some spare time I'll do more intensive testing.
Additionally, I mounted more than half of the partitions on this notebook read only, and made a 1:1 copy of these partitions to an external hard drive. Therefore, I can check later if something accidentally did write to these areas.
If you have any suggestions for additional test, please tell me.
The random filesystem corruption had one positive effect: I never had such a good backup of my data before. ;-)
Jan
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