[tlug] ResiserFS + sudden poweroff = problem

[patrick.niessen@example.com]

Dear Everyone,

yesterday when I pulled out a 1U server from a rack, the power cable got
caught and consequently pulled out.  I stayed calm, knowing that I use a
journaling file system, namely ReiserFS.  Alas, after powering on again,
Linux got a kernel panic when attempting to mount the root partition.

It was easily fixed running fsck from a gentoo boot disk (which played back
the journal), but I had assumed such a thing to happen automatically. 

/dev/hda1 mounted as boot, ext2, 100MB
/dev/hda2 swapdisk
/dev/hda3 mounted as root, resiserfs, 30G

Any way to ensure a clean restart without manual intervention?

thanks

Patrick 

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Patrick Niessen 
IT-Manager / Planning & Controlling 
Gerling Allgemeine Versicherungs-AG, Japan Branch
ゲーリング・アルゲマイネ保険会社 日本支店
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