Re: ext2 fs not properly updated upon dismount.
Rik van Riel (H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl)
Wed, 17 Jun 1998 22:00:01 +0200 (CEST)
On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Ganesh Sittampalam wrote:
>
> > Confirmed - I tried this with 2.1.106-ac2 and I got filesystem errors, after
> > cleanly shutting down the system. I believe this should not happen under any
> > circumstances? I have never aborted a filesystem check if one was forced.
>
> Thanks for the confirmation. I think there is a "small" problem that
> will lead to "creeping" file-system corruption. It may be very hard to
> find, so in the meantime, one could 'force' a complete fsck upon bootup
> so problems don't exponentiate.
Setting the mount count to 3 or 5 will be a better solution,
IMHO.
But, does this corruption occur too when multiple sync(1)
calls are being done from the shutdown script?
Rik.
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