From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda3.sgi.com [192.48.176.15]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id mAQ8sstM029202 for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 02:54:55 -0600 Received: from mail.lichtvoll.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 645BF1603D90 for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:54:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.lichtvoll.de (mondschein.lichtvoll.de [194.150.191.11]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id CXxAgae3zjLgrBXl for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:54:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from shambala.of.teamix.net (blackhole.teamix.net [194.150.191.251]) by mail.lichtvoll.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 838555ADF2 for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:49:20 +0100 (CET) From: Martin Steigerwald Subject: Re: truncated files Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:49:18 +0100 References: <200811252244.14718.Martin@Lichtvoll.de> <20081125222703.GE6291@disturbed> (sfid-20081126_093721_225409_0DE433F6) In-Reply-To: <20081125222703.GE6291@disturbed> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200811260949.19642.Martin@lichtvoll.de> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: xfs@oss.sgi.com Am Dienstag 25 November 2008 schrieb Dave Chinner: > On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 10:44:14PM +0100, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Hi! > > > > Today on one try to hibernate via tuxonice it machine appeared dead. > > I am > > ^^^^^^^^^ > When (not if) suspend to disk/resume fails, you get to keep all the > broken pieces of your filesystem. It works most of the time, but it has > some fundamentally broken corner cases that you probably just > hit.... Well I use TuxOnIce for a reason! I had uptimes of up to 70 days with it already. And they are usually only interrupted by kernel updates or manual shutdowns. I was never convinced by in-kernel solutions for hibernate. > > Similar stuff happened on the encfs encrypted KDE user that I use for > > professional stuff - encfs is layered on top of XFS via FUSE: > > IIRC, FUSE cannot be suspended safely at all, so expect corruption > of FUSE filesystems on a failed suspend. Ok, fair enough. My private data isn't on encfs tough. > I've never had a system that suspends reliably (let alone resumes > from the suspend) so it's no real surprise that I don't trust > suspend to disk.... Well I take it as bad luck then, especially since there are no hints that XFS had a problem. I am not sure whether the machine really was dead, but I can't reproduce what exactly happened. So thats it. Ciao, -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs