Something strange happening in one of our SLES9 servers. After reboot,
changes to root partition are lost. I confirmed it by cycling it today.
We created an account and now the home directory for the account is gone
and /etc/passwd has old timestamp.
The mount output shows that the root is mounted r/w and the minidisk
definition says MR.
zlp3:/home # mount
/dev/dasdb1 on / type ext3 (rw,acl,user_xattr)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620,gid=5)
/dev/dasdc1 on /boot type ext2 (rw,acl,user_xattr)
/dev/dasdg1 on /local type ext3 (rw,acl,user_xattr)
/dev/dasdf1 on /opt type ext3 (rw,acl,user_xattr)
/dev/dasdd1 on /usr type ext3 (rw,acl,user_xattr)
/dev/dasde1 on /var type ext3 (rw,acl,user_xattr)
MDISK 0151 3390 1 1500 LIN043 MR read write
It seems like either Linux or z/VM is not flushing the disk. I even
issue sync command after the changes but when I mount the minidisk as
read only on another guest, I dont see the changes.
I do know that when ZLP3, the server with problem comes up, it shows a
lot of errors on tmpfs at /dev/shm!
Anyone been in similar situation?
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