ext4 recovery/deleted orphans on reboot...

Evan Huus eapache at gmail.com
Tue Sep 25 00:35:08 UTC 2012


On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 7:48 PM, Daniel J Blueman <daniel at quora.org> wrote:
> In Ubuntu 12.10 pre-release, I've frequently been observing ext4
> recovery has been needed after reboot [1].
>
> This clearly isn't expected, however could be a side-effect of eg
> incomplete flushing after unmount before the ACPI/cf8 reset vector is
> hit.
>
> So, is this thought to be a kernel issue or userspace? I'm using a
> 256GB Samsung 830 SSD, but was seeing this on an OCZ Vertex 3
> (Sandforce) SSD also.

Without more information my money would be on a kernel issue, although
it may be something very low-level like upstart.

Evan




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