On Gwe, 2005-08-12 at 12:01 +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: > solveable by resizing. But the machine will occationally hang, forcing > me to > use the reset button. I lost my mbox file to this (from an ext3 fs, on > raid-1 on scsi.)
Unless you are using data=journal and have turned write cache off on your IDE drives that is expected. Metadata journalling protects your file system intgerity. Data journalling is more expensive but will protect your file integrity if the disk layer is also correctly set up. Unfortunately the IDE layer defaults the wrong way and despite many complaints has not been changed. In later 2.6 with modern drives you can also enable barrier mode on the IDE layer which gives better results than turning off the write cache. Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
