From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262963AbUEQW3a (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 May 2004 18:29:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263045AbUEQWZN (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 May 2004 18:25:13 -0400 Received: from mail.tmr.com ([216.238.38.203]:60676 "EHLO gatekeeper.tmr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263032AbUEQWXi (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 May 2004 18:23:38 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: not-for-mail From: Bill Davidsen Newsgroups: mail.linux-kernel Subject: Re: Linux Kernel 2.6.6 IDE shutdown problems. Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 18:25:51 -0400 Organization: TMR Associates, Inc Message-ID: References: <200405151506.20765.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: gatekeeper.tmr.com 1084832415 22091 192.168.12.100 (17 May 2004 22:20:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@tmr.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031208 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <200405151506.20765.bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > On Saturday 15 of May 2004 14:20, Justin Piszcz wrote: > >>The problem is the 2.6.6 kernel muxed my drive and when it fscked upon >>reboot it deleted /etc/mtab and lilo.conf! > > > What fs are you using? > > >>Luckily I restored them from a backup and now run 2.6.5 and it is working >>fine. >> >>Linux 2.6.6 is a nightmare. >> >>I am looking into the benchmark problem with 2.6.6 now. >> >>--- In linux-kernel@yahoogroups.com, "Justin Piszcz" wrote: >> >>>Now whenever I reboot it says input/output errors when it tries to mount >>>the drive? I will look into this further. > > > This errors are HARMLESS and CAN'T corrupt your data. > Please see http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2672 for description+fix. I would think that if the drive didn't properly flush cache on shutdown that it might cause corruption. Feel free to tell me no drive would bahave like that ;-) -- -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com) "The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer" -me