Re: [LI] strange problem

[Arun Sharma <adsharma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Dec 01, 1999 at 06:45:44PM +0530, Chetan Gopal Kashinath wrote:
> this is a pentium 166, 32mb ram system with rh 5.2 installed without any
> xwindows. it was working perfectly fine until a power failure. then it
> gave the normal [ give root passwd for maintainance or ctrl-d for normal
> shutdown ] message. on giving the root passwd and running fsck on
> /dev/hda5 returns some errors and fixes them but the problem is this has
> become the default login and no other user can use the system other than
> the root. what could be wrong here. the person concerned is doing some
> simple perl programming ( has just started )

This is a part of the aggressive asynchronous things that ext2fs does,
at the cost of bullet proof safety.

Read the FFS+softupdates Vs ext2fs threads on the net.

http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/9812.3/0264.html

Here's a link to the softupdates paper:

http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/papers/CSE-TR-254-95/

	-Arun

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