From: "Mack Stevenson" <mackstevenson@hotmail.com>
To: adilger@turbolabs.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, reiser@namesys.com,
nerijus@users.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: Basic reiserfs question
Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2001 02:24:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <F79TdzI1J9Ofj8BrbOw0000a090@hotmail.com> (raw)
Andreas,
>From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolabs.com>
>To: Mack Stevenson <mackstevenson@hotmail.com>
>CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, reiser@namesys.com,
>nerijus@users.sourceforge.net
>Subject: Re: Basic reiserfs question
>Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 11:04:26 -0600
>
>On Sep 07, 2001 13:38 +0200, Mack Stevenson wrote:
> > >From syslog, referring to the last time I booted my machine:
> >
> > reiserfs: checking transaction log (device 03:02) ...
> > Warning, log replay starting on readonly filesystem
> > reiserfs: replayed 16 transactions in 4 seconds
> > using r5 hash to sort names
> > ReiserFS version 3.6.25
> > VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly.
>
>This clearly means that it is a "dirty" shutdown, because it is replaying
>the journal log.
Right.
> > Should I worry if I don't get such messages whenever I boot? Or should I
> > worry if I get those messages after (apparently) clean shutdown
>procedures?
>
>It would be troublesome if you got the messages after a clean shutdown.
That's what happening (kernel 2.4.8), about 1 out of 5 times .
>This might mean that reiserfs is not syncing some journal buffers to disk
>when the root filesystem is remounted read-only. Alternately, it may mean
>that it is finding bogus transactions to replay in the journal (I don't
>know how reiserfs determines whether the journal is clean or dirty).
>
>It may also mean that your disk claims to have written data to disk, but
>then only puts it in cache and you power off before in actually writes it.
>Do you have APM/ACPI power off after shutdown?
Yes, I run APM. Should I try disabling APM power off and manually doing so
instead?
Thank you,
Mack
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Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-09-08 0:24 Mack Stevenson [this message]
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2001-09-07 11:38 Basic reiserfs question Mack Stevenson
2001-09-07 17:04 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-09-06 13:00 Mack Stevenson
2001-09-06 12:56 ` Hans Reiser
2001-09-06 14:09 ` Bob McElrath
2001-09-07 0:02 ` Re[2]: " Nerijus Baliunas
2001-09-07 7:50 ` Hans Reiser
2001-09-07 16:26 ` Nerijus Baliunas
2001-09-06 22:38 ` Chris Mason
2001-09-06 3:35 Samium Gromoff
2001-09-05 22:14 Mack Stevenson
2001-09-05 21:50 ` Hans Reiser
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