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From: Tobias Ringstrom <tori@tellus.mine.nu>
To: Skip Collins <bernard.collins@jhuapl.edu>
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Subject: Re: system hang and corrupt ext2 filesystem with test12-pre5
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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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