[lug] Rather disturbing

[Gary Hodges]

Zan Lynx wrote:

>On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 17:10, Gary Hodges wrote:
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>>Thanks for the comments.  Sure sounds like what you describe is exactly 
>>what happened.  Would ext3 have done the same thing?  I also discovered 
>>that a file I was editing at the time, and had been saved, has 
>>disappeared.  This seems to contradict slightly your description of how 
>>ReiserFS works.  I don't know about the availability of patches for 
>>ReiserFS for SuSE 9.0.  I certainly haven't applied any knowingly, but I 
>>will look into this.
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>The file that you had saved...how long before the crash was that?  On my
>system here, I am using a 2.6 kernel with the anticipatory I/O
>scheduler, and the time limit for writes is 25 seconds.
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>I'm not sure, but your system may have written the data to memory and
>reported the write complete before it actually got to the disk.
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It was a small Perl program that I had been editing for between 10 and 
20 minutes.  I had saved it several times and had run it a few times.  
Actually, I think the execution of this program may have played a part 
in the locking of the machine.

Gary