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Re: Recovery problem



I believe that many people use the mentioned patch since there is a special 
deb that is "compiled with the UDMA66 patch from Andre Hedric" among the debs 
of the kernel-image.


> 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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