Ranga Nathan wrote: > Over a period of time I have observed that when a Linux guest is brought > down with signal shutdown (Linux gets this signal as a shut down or halt > and signals the ttys and daemons) we get file system errors. I am beginning > to suspect mini disk caching. Even though we do not share minidisks for > writing across the guests, for some reason z/VM or Linux is not flushing > the buffers when Linux guests are brought down. Your problem description sounds _very_ much like you did have the disks on multiple guests online at the very same time.
> We use SLES9 and reiserfs. Outside the z/VM environment, I do not see or > hear of so many incidents of file corruption using reiserfs. There seems to > be some gap in my understanding here. Given that I use both z/VM and the 2.6.x. dasd device driver (that is in sles9) every day, and I never see such things happen although we do frequently take down our VMs (iocds changes, new microcode for testing etc.), could you please doublecheck whether that also happens with third extended filesystem? -- Carsten Otte IBM Linux technology center ARCH=s390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
