Hayden Myers <hayden@spinbox.com> writes: > I recently patched our 2.2.20 production kernel with the ext3 patch > from kernel.org and have experienced failure on more than one account. > Everything seems to run great until the power goes out and the box > isn't shutdown correctly. After that files are missing and the box > won't boot. All of the partitions were mounted ext3 ordered mode I > think. Anyone else experience filesystem corruption with that patch? Make sure that you don't have writeback cache on your harddisk. This can have devastating effects on journaled filsystemes. Newer IDE-drives seem to have this enabled per default. :/ -- Per Andreas Buer
