Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Feb 2002 07:54:52 -0800 | From | Mike Fedyk <> | Subject | Re: [PATCHSET] Linux 2.4.18-rc4-jam1 |
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On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 11:57:51PM -0500, Ed Sweetman wrote: > On Sat, 2002-02-23 at 22:06, Mike Fedyk wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 09:01:06PM -0500, Ed Sweetman wrote: > > > Or it could be my ext3 fs corrupting files again. > > > > > > > Oy, do you have one of those write-back (behind) ide hard drives?
> Probably, it's a WD 100GB. hdparm says WriteCache=enabled > I dont know if the bios is set to writeback off hand, I'd have to > reboot, which I'll probably do soon to add in another hdd and possibly > run memtest86 instead of just memtest
Does it turn off automatically on shutdown (halt)?
Debian has recently turned off write-back caching on shutdown just after unmounting all local filesystems. That, or turning off write-back caching will probably fix your problem.
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