From: rohrer@fncrd6.fnal.gov (Keith Rohrer) Subject: Re: Ext2 fs strangeness Date: 14 Jun 1993 14:50:59 GMT
In article <1993Jun13.040856.7239@sol.cs.wmich.edu>, stempien@cs.wmich.edu (Brian Stempien) writes:
|> I noticed something odd today. With the new version of the kernel pl10, the
|> clean bit on a filesystem seems to be ignored. In other words, I do a proper
|> shutdown which should set the clean bit on umount. We I reboot, e2fsck goes
|> right to work checking the|> n event though I should see a note about being
|> clean. I figure, ok I may I didn't shutdown right, but when mount mounts the
|> file systems I get the message that unchecked filesystem is mounted and
|> should be check with e2fsck. This shouldn't happen since e2fsck just got
|> done.
My clean bit has been erratic ever since 0.99pl9, or efsprogs 0.3, I'm
not sure which. Even umounting them and the e2fscking them doesn't necessarily
clear the dirty bit.
Keith
|> It isn't a big deal, just a pain that I have to wait for it, but I am worried that this might speed of deeper bugs.....
|>
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