Re: [cobalt-developers] Re: [cobalt-users] Raq 3 Hard Drive File Problems

[Dennis <dennis@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 09:50 AM 2/17/00 -0800, you wrote:
>Dennis wrote:
>> 
>> I am losing entire directory trees of files whenever my RAQ3 locks up
>> (which is way too often)...I've been running many linux systems for years
>> and I've never had such massive file loss (maybe 1 or 2 on rare occasion).
>> Is cobalt doing something differently? Cacheing or not syncing on
>> reasonable intervals? Its a real problem.
>
>Your system should not be locking up, firstly!  Can you help us figure
>that out, first?  Any strange logs, or console messages (telnet in, and
>run dmesg or attach a serial console)?  Any reproducible crashes?

The "lockups" are due to kernel development we are doing, so crashes are
common during testing. its impossible to do such development on a machine
that get trashed every time it crashes...this IS the developers list,
right? :-)

Dennis
>
>Tim
>
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>Tim Hockin
>Software Engineer / OS Engineer
>Cobalt Networks
>thockin@xxxxxxxxxx
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