Re: system hang and corrupt ext2 filesystem with test12-pre5

From: Tobias Ringstrom (tori@tellus.mine.nu)
Date: Wed Dec 06 2000 - 10:50:56 EST


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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