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Recovery problem



Hi,

I have a problem that I can't seem to trace it's origin. Whenever
my system is uncleanly powered off ( power failure for example ),
next time it boots up, I find a lot of files in /home/lost+found.
I know that the OS checks itself after the filesystem was not cleanly
unmounted. The thing that puzzles me is why do I find the files in
/home/lost+found *each and every time*. On my previous linux box
(pentium 200MHz with 64MB RAM) this never happened. The old system
would boot, check the filesystem, fix some i-nodes, and that would be it. 
lost+found would always stay empty. However, on my current machine
(Athlon 650MHz + 256MB RAM) lost+found always gets filled with data.
This leads me to 2 possible scenarios:

1. Since my RAM is quite large it means more memory buffers are
   allocated which imply less disk sync. And this, incase of a crash,
   can lead to the problems I experience.

2. I am using Hedrick's ide patch (can be found at:
   http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/ ) for the
   kenrel (2.2.15) to support ATA66. Maybe the patch is to blame?

I am backing-up my machine periodically, so I never lost everything
important, but this is stil a pain...
Does anyone have some other ideas of what might cause this behaviour
or fixes (other than UPS or JFS :)? Anyone else has uses the mentioned
patch?

TIA,
Yosi

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