Re: Sysrq not working properly...

From: Khimenko Victor (khim@dell.sch57.msk.ru)
Date: Fri Feb 04 2000 - 08:41:29 EST


On Fri, 4 Feb 2000 Daniel.Egger@suse.de wrote:

> On 4 Feb, Khimenko Victor wrote:
>
> >> Ideas?
>
> > This is how SysRq-U is SUPPOSED to work :-) It even says so:
> > -- cut --
> > SysRq: Emergency Remount R/O
> > -- cut --
>
> > System is STILL mounted and so SHOULD BE changed after reboot.
>
> Yes, of course....
> I should have said: it isn't mounted r/o....
>
Huh ??? You CAN save to drive after SysRq-U ???

> > It's
> > good idea: SysRq is EMERGENCY tool after all and it's allways good
> > idea to check everything after emergency :-) SysRq-U will prevent
> > FUTHER filesystem corruption but if filesystem was ALREADY corrupted
> > when you pressed SysRq-U it can not be fixed without fsck (and you are
> > NOT supposed to use SysRq-U when there are no possible curruption:
> > just reboot as usual)...
>
> Let's say (despite of my writings): it doesn't work as supposed... :)
> It won't remount the drives...
>
???? It does so here: I can not write anything on disk after SysRq-U. Of
course disk will be fscked after reboot.

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