> It seems that we should put something in journal replay that says:
>
> "Warning: replaying a non-empty journal, this means that either your
> system crashed, or its shutdown scripts need fixing (a common distro
> failing at the moment), or you pushed the power button. Don't use the
> hardware power button to turn your computer off before telling the
> operating system software to halt (there exists a 'halt' command you can
> use), the risk in doing so is that the files you or your software were
> writing to at the time you pushed the button can have garbage added to
> them."
>
> Chris, do you agree? Edward, please make this change and create a patch.
Sorry, I'm a bit slow this week, I caught a cold at linux world (apparently
the users are contagious).
Anyway, the text above is great for a man page. kernel messages don't take
more than one line ;-)
-chris
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