Thanks Tim for the workout. On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 02:51:11PM +0800, Tim Post wrote: > I've been following this thread and thought I'd do a bit of > experimenting to see which of the two best recover themselves. > > Once that happened, I paused both VM's, issued a sysrq to sync disks and > destroyed them in memory. This simulated an out of control box where the > admin was able to effect a shutdown where disks synced (not just push > re-set). > > Booted them up again : > > Ext3 spent 30 minutes in a fsck, some data was lost
Was that data in lost+found or just gone? > > jfs spent 5 minutes, no data was lost > > Experiment #2 > > Same experiment, only this time I didn't sync disks. I just destroyed > the VMs in memory (same as pulling out the power plug), rebooted. > > ext3 fixed a couple of inodes and came back pretty quickly > jfs drive wasn't able to be mounted. What happens if you run jfs_fsck -f ? Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
