From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 18:39:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 18:38:54 -0400 Received: from roc-24-169-102-121.rochester.rr.com ([24.169.102.121]:24229 "EHLO roc-24-169-102-121.rochester.rr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 6 Sep 2001 18:38:37 -0400 Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 18:38:59 -0400 From: Chris Mason To: Hans Reiser , Mack Stevenson cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, _deepfire@mail.ru, Edward Shushkin Subject: Re: Basic reiserfs question Message-ID: <895160000.999815938@tiny> In-Reply-To: <3B97729B.1F49AACA@namesys.com> In-Reply-To: <3B97729B.1F49AACA@namesys.com> X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.1.0 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday, September 06, 2001 04:56:59 PM +0400 Hans Reiser 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