I recently patched our 2.2.20 production kernel with the ext3 patch from kernel.org and have experienced failure on more than one account. Everything seems to run great until the power goes out and the box isn't shutdown correctly. After that files are missing and the box won't boot. All of the partitions were mounted ext3 ordered mode I think. Anyone else experience filesystem corruption with that patch? Hayden Myers Support Manager Skyline Network Technologies hayden@spinbox.com (410)583-1337 option 2
Hayden Myers <hayden@spinbox.com> writes:> I recently patched our 2.2.20 production kernel with the ext3 patch > from kernel.org and have experienced failure on more than one account. > Everything seems to run great until the power goes out and the box > isn't shutdown correctly. After that files are missing and the box > won't boot. All of the partitions were mounted ext3 ordered mode I > think. Anyone else experience filesystem corruption with that patch?Make sure that you don't have writeback cache on your harddisk. This can have devastating effects on journaled filsystemes. Newer IDE-drives seem to have this enabled per default. :/ -- Per Andreas Buer