Re: ext3 on raid5 failure

[Bas Mevissen <ml@basmevissen.nl>]

Nigel Cunningham wrote:

> Hi.
> 
> Are you using a swap partition or swap file? If we're talking swap file,
> I would suspect suspend2. I haven't had a chance to look yet (preparing
> to move to Aussie), but Michael has told me there are problems with the
> swapfile support.
> 

You are reading everything, I beleave :-)
Nope, only a swap partition. I read swsusp ML too :-)

I really suspect the power failure (forgot to plug in the AC adapter :-) 
) was the "hard off" with the FS corruption.

> If you had a crash while using suspend and swap file support, I wouldn't
> be totally surprised to see an emergency sync causing this. That said,
> the code has a number of safety nets aimed at stopping us syncing while
> suspend is running, to avoid precisely this sort of corruption. If it
> was suspend, I'd expect your superblock to have been messed too. Did
> that happen?
> 

The superblock was fine. There was just a short file system check when 
booting again. I only noticed it a day later when the news reader didn't 
want to start anymore.

But thanks for thinking!

Regards,

Bas.