[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 11:10:47AM -0700, David Brown wrote: >> Which filesystem are you using? I haven't lost a filesystem due to a >> power outage in well over a decade. > > ext3 > >> I think you're doing something unusual here. Do you at least 'sync' >> before suspend? > > Never. I don't even know what that is. I'll guess it puts the drive in a > safe > state. I'd hope suspend author would have been smart enough to do that for > Aunt Tilly. Now she has to sync as well as carry a Knoppix CD around? :) >
I agree that protecting user's data should be rule-1, and features such as suspend should not require extra-normal expertise to use. I guess this has happened just once -- and I don't suppose you are volunteering to try forcing a repeat for the purpose of narrowing down the failure causes, eh? ;-) Still, it might be worth filing some kind of bug report. Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
