Re: Ext2 vs. ext3 recovery after crash

[Jauder Ho]

Bill, you do know that it will do a full fsck every x mounts right?

[root@turtle /lib]# tune2fs -l /dev/hda6 | grep -i mount
Last mounted on:          <not available>
Last mount time:          Sun Mar  3 11:34:50 2002
Mount count:              1
Maximum mount count:      20

--Jauder

On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Bill Davidsen wrote:

> I have a laptop (Dell Inspiron C600) which, like most Dell laptops,
> crashes every time I log out of X. On some occasions on reboot I get a
> message about replaying the journal, while occasionally I get a full ext2
> style multi-pass 12 minute recovery. I don't see why the ext3 isn't always
> used, I know it's going to crash, I always do a sync and wait ten seconds
> for journal writes, etc, to take place.
>
> I have tried all the usual, Redhat kernels, 2.4.17, 2.4.19, -aa, -ac,
> disable io-apc, disable apic, disable all power management, boot noapic
> (someone swore it wasn't enough to pull it out of the kernel ;-) all
> producing about 20% chance of slow reboot.
>
> Since I would have to spend my own money to replace this device with
> something functional before 2003, is there something I'm missing about why
> it does the slow cleanup? It was Redhat 7.1, updated fsutils and modutils,
> pcmcia packed, etc, to latest of Mar 15 this year, in case that matters.
> All kernels have ext3 compiled in, all work "most of the time."
>
> --
> bill davidsen <[e-mail]>
>   CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
> Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.
>
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