>>>>> "martin" == martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org> writes: martin> i just did a dist-upgrade on a system with all partitions on martin> reiserfs. during the upgrade, a power failure made the system martin> restart. upon booting up, dpkg/apt is thoroughly broken: [...] I have encountered something similar once with reiserfs. There is a patch somewhere that supposedly fixes this, but I don't think it has been rolled into the standard kernel yet. Search the reiserfs list for something like "ordered writes". I believe the patch is by Chris Mason. It basically ensures that data is written to the disk before the metadata is written. -- Hubert Chan <hubert@uhoreg.ca> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encrypted e-mail preferred.
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