Re: [PATCH] Make devfs create /dev/shm (was: Re: Trashing ext2 with hdparm) )

2000-12-18 Thread Christoph Rohland
Hi Roderich, On Fri, 08 Dec 2000, Roderich Schupp wrote: >> And I'll ask again... If this is now the recommend mount point, >> can we have devfs create this directory for us? > > C'mon guys, this is just to easy: Included in 2.4.0-test13-pre3... Greetings Christoph - To unsub

[PATCH] Make devfs create /dev/shm (was: Re: Trashing ext2 with hdparm) )

2000-12-08 Thread Roderich Schupp
Chris Meadors wrote: > > On 6 Dec 2000, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > > > > Please don't use the path /var/shm... it was a really bad precedent > > set when someone suggested it. Use /dev/shm. > > > > And I'll ask again... If this is now the recommend mount point, can we > have devfs create this d

Re: Trashing ext2 with hdparm

2000-12-06 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Chris Meadors wrote: > > On 6 Dec 2000, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > > > > Please don't use the path /var/shm... it was a really bad precedent > > set when someone suggested it. Use /dev/shm. > > > > And I'll ask again... If this is now the recommend mount point, can we > have devfs create thi

Re: Trashing ext2 with hdparm

2000-12-06 Thread Chris Meadors
On 6 Dec 2000, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > Please don't use the path /var/shm... it was a really bad precedent > set when someone suggested it. Use /dev/shm. > And I'll ask again... If this is now the recommend mount point, can we have devfs create this directory for us? -Chris -- Two pengui

Re: Trashing ext2 with hdparm

2000-12-06 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By author:Andre Hedrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Did you set and mount a "/var/shm" point? > Please don't use the path /var/shm... it was a really bad precedent set when someone suggested it. Use /dev/shm. -hpa --

Re: Trashing ext2 with hdparm

2000-12-06 Thread Andre Hedrick
Did you set and mount a "/var/shm" point? On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Udo A. Steinberg wrote: > Hi, > > Andre Hedrick wrote: > > > > No way that this could cause corruption it is a read-only test. > > As others pointed out, it's probably something related to shared > memory, but it's definitely hdp

Re: Trashing ext2 with hdparm

2000-12-06 Thread Udo A. Steinberg
Hi, Andre Hedrick wrote: > > No way that this could cause corruption it is a read-only test. As others pointed out, it's probably something related to shared memory, but it's definitely hdparm that triggers it. I haven't got the hdparm sources here to look at what exactly it's doing, but there

Re: Trashing ext2 with hdparm

2000-12-06 Thread Jan Niehusmann
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 11:41:51AM -0800, Andre Hedrick wrote: > No way that this could cause corruption it is a read-only test. It definitely does, I saw it, too. It seems to be triggered by invalidate_buffers(). Jan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in

Re: Trashing ext2 with hdparm

2000-12-06 Thread Andre Hedrick
No way that this could cause corruption it is a read-only test. On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Udo A. Steinberg wrote: > > Hi, > > Following the discussion in another thread where someone > reported fs corruption when enabling DMA with hdparm, I've > played around with hdparm and found that even the rat

Re: Trashing ext2 with hdparm

2000-12-06 Thread Byron Stanoszek
On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Udo A. Steinberg wrote: > Hi, > > Following the discussion in another thread where someone > reported fs corruption when enabling DMA with hdparm, I've > played around with hdparm and found that even the rather > harmless hdparm operations are capable of trashing an ext2 > fi

Re: Trashing ext2 with hdparm

2000-12-06 Thread Jan Niehusmann
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 06:25:15PM +0100, Udo A. Steinberg wrote: > hdparm -tT /dev/hdb1 does the trick here. > > After that, several files are corrupted, such as /etc/mtab. > Reboot+fsck fixes the problem, however e2fsck never finds > any errors in the fs on disk. I'm currently trying to isolat

Trashing ext2 with hdparm

2000-12-06 Thread Udo A. Steinberg
Hi, Following the discussion in another thread where someone reported fs corruption when enabling DMA with hdparm, I've played around with hdparm and found that even the rather harmless hdparm operations are capable of trashing an ext2 filesystem quite nicely. hdparm version is 3.9 hdparm -tT