On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 11:38:42PM -0500, Roland McGrath wrote: > Ack! Corruption when only reading is certainly an unpleasant situation. > Are you sure that prior writes had been sync'd and it was the reading doing > it?
No, I am not sure, but with a syncing interval of 5s and heavy disk activity, I would guess it has properly synced in the mid of the first run. But I can't be sure. > If at all possible, what you should do is keep your root partition > read-only (this is probably only doable without a lot of hassle just > booting single-user) and do the frobbing that produces corruption on a > separate filesystem. Well, the hurd source tree was on a second file system, although my root was not mounted read only. I don't care much about the current root though, as a fresh install is due anyay. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org for public PGP Key [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
