Re: PDC20262 IDE - DMA no go? - And "dump" question

Joachim Breuer (jmbreuer@gmx.net)
Wed, 28 Aug 2002 21:36:08 +0200

Roger Larsson <roger.larsson@skelleftea.mail.telia.com> writes:
> On Wednesday 28 August 2002 20.01, Joachim Breuer wrote:
>> D. I think the fs is hosed, format it and restore from backup. Next
>> fsck shows it has errors. Correct them. Just to be on the safe side,
>> reboot and fsck again. Guess what. So it seems that in this
>> configuration an fsck under 2.4.19-rc1-ac2 would corrupt the fs it's
>> trying to fix.
>
> After reading this I have to ask.
> You are not trying to fsck a mounted partion are you?

No sweat, I'm not. - BTW, anyone know since when it is again/when it
will be "safe" (as in not corrupting the fs) to use dump on a mounted
but idle fs? - I could use lvm snapshots as well, last I heard there
was some "bug" in the buffer cache corrupting data when dump was used
even on an ro, but mounted, fs.

So long,
Joe

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