> On Sunday February 1, yg@mind.lu wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I have my home partition on a raid1 device, and there is an ext3 >> filesystem on it. Some more information: > ... >> >> Recently I had some freezes (due to nvidia...?), and everytime I had >> to make a hard reset. >> >> Everytime then the raid resynced completely which took about 1.5 >> hours. One time I lost some kde settings when this happened. >> The filesystem did not complain about an unclean shutdown, it seems it >> did not see on bootup that the last shutdown was unclean. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >> Now to my questions: >> Is this the normal behaviour? > Which behaviour? Sorry for being unclear... After an unclean shutdown, my raid always rebuilds, and the filesystem never replays the journal. I just does not see that it was not properly unmounted. Now again :)... is that the normal behaviour? > 1.5 hour resync -- maybe. It depends on the speed and size of the > drives. ok > lost kde settings -- maybe. It depends on how well kde copes with > sudden system failure. ok > The filesystem didn't complain -- Yes. ext3 doesn't complain about > an unclean shutdown. It just replays the journal and keeps > working. It did not replay anything in these cases. >> Shouldn't the filesystem take care of that? > > Take care of what? I suspect it did take care of everything it > could. > >> What is the point of having a journaling filesystem on a mirror? > Lots. A journaling filesystem guards against unclean shutdown. A > mirror guards against drive failure. These are compliementary. > >> Is there anything I can change to have the filesystem handle unclean >> shutdowns? > > I think it did handle the unclean shutdown just fine. > The loss of kde settings is probably dud to KDE note being careful > enough when updating it's settings file. > > NeilBrown > >> >> TIA, >> Yves >> >> >> -- >> Linux 2.4.24 #5 Mon Jan 5 19:38:06 CET 2004 i686 >> 14:25:55 up 4:14, 1 user, load average: 0.43, 0.40, 0.32 >> >> - >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" >> in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
