Re: Linux Kernel 2.6.6 IDE shutdown problems.

[Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz]

On Saturday 15 of May 2004 14:20, Justin Piszcz wrote:
> The problem is the 2.6.6 kernel muxed my drive and when it fscked upon
> reboot it deleted /etc/mtab and lilo.conf!

What fs are you using?

> Luckily I restored them from a backup and now run 2.6.5 and it is working
> fine.
>
> Linux 2.6.6 is a nightmare.
>
> I am looking into the benchmark problem with 2.6.6 now.
>
> --- In linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Justin Piszcz" <jpiszcz@xxxx> wrote:
> >Now whenever I reboot it says input/output errors when it tries to mount
> >the drive? I will look into this further.

This errors are HARMLESS and CAN'T corrupt your data.
Please see http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2672 for description+fix.

Cheers,
Bartlomiej

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