Re: Induced crashes

To: "Neal H. Walfield" <neal@cs.uml.edu>
Cc: Philip Charles <philipc@copyleft.co.nz>, debian-hurd mailing list <debian-hurd@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: Induced crashes
From: Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 16:50:10 +0100
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On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 09:44:06AM -0500, Neal H. Walfield wrote:
> > OK folk, what is causing the problem?
> 
> This is not an ext2fs bug; something is causing a Mach panic.  The
> reason that your file system has been corrupted is that the data was
> not synch'ed to disk (when Mach panics, it takes the whole system
> down).  The correct solution is to fix Mach.  Determining what program
> is causing the resource shortage in Mach would be useful.

ext2fs should be quite robust: Even pulling the plug at any time should not
corrupt the filesystem beyond what e2fsck can repair.

Thanks,
Marcus

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