public inbox for linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
To: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>,
	Mack Stevenson <mackstevenson@hotmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, _deepfire@mail.ru,
	Edward Shushkin <edward@mail.infotel.ru>
Subject: Re: Basic reiserfs question
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 18:38:59 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <895160000.999815938@tiny> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3B97729B.1F49AACA@namesys.com>
In-Reply-To: <F45bR99kQgkV07DPT1p00005d9e@hotmail.com> <3B97729B.1F49AACA@namesys.com>



On Thursday, September 06, 2001 04:56:59 PM +0400 Hans Reiser
<reiser@namesys.com> wrote:

> It seems that we should put something in journal replay that says:
> 
> "Warning: replaying a non-empty journal, this means that either your
> system crashed, or its shutdown scripts need fixing (a common distro
> failing at the moment), or you pushed the power button.  Don't use the
> hardware power button to turn your computer off before telling the
> operating system software to halt (there exists a 'halt' command you can
> use), the risk in doing so is that the files you or your software were
> writing to at the time you pushed the button can have garbage added to
> them."
> 
> Chris, do you agree?  Edward, please make this change and create a patch.

Sorry, I'm a bit slow this week, I caught a cold at linux world (apparently
the users are contagious).

Anyway, the text above is great for a man page.  kernel messages don't take
more than one line ;-)

-chris



  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-09-06 22:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-09-06 13:00 Basic reiserfs question Mack Stevenson
2001-09-06 12:56 ` Hans Reiser
2001-09-06 14:09   ` Bob McElrath
2001-09-06 22:38   ` Chris Mason [this message]
2001-09-07  0:02   ` Re[2]: " Nerijus Baliunas
2001-09-07  0:22     ` replaying reiserfs journal and bad blocks (was: Re[3]: Basic reiserfs question) Nerijus Baliunas
2001-09-07  7:50     ` Basic reiserfs question Hans Reiser
2001-09-07 13:35       ` Re[2]: " Nerijus Baliunas
2001-09-09 10:10         ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2001-09-07 16:26       ` Nerijus Baliunas
     [not found]     ` <20010907002247.6A4418F703@mail.delfi.lt>
2001-09-07  7:54       ` replaying reiserfs journal and bad blocks (was: Re[3]: Basic reiserfs question) Hans Reiser
2001-09-07  9:48         ` replaying reiserfs journal and bad blocks (was: Re[3]: Basic Alan Cox
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-09-08  0:24 Basic reiserfs question Mack Stevenson
2001-09-07 11:38 Mack Stevenson
2001-09-07 17:04 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-09-06  3:35 Samium Gromoff
2001-09-05 22:14 Mack Stevenson
2001-09-05 21:50 ` Hans Reiser

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=895160000.999815938@tiny \
    --to=mason@suse.com \
    --cc=_deepfire@mail.ru \
    --cc=edward@mail.infotel.ru \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=mackstevenson@hotmail.com \
    --cc=reiser@namesys.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox