5.4-STABLE corrupting fs on shutdown -p now?

[David Scheidt]

Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 03:38:49AM +0100, Steven Hartland wrote:

>>Why would FS's be being corrupted by "shutdown -p now" where
>>as "reboot" doesnt seem to?
> 
> 
> Maybe the machine is being powered down before your disks have
> finished writing their data to disk.
> 


My ThinkPad has done this several times.  It normally boots, but 
complains that filesystems aren't clean.  I can't reliably reproduce it.
As I'm not normally beating on the disk before I power it off, I can't 
see that it wouldn't have time to write the data.  (The buffer counts 
are always less than 5).

It didn't do this on the mid-feb. stable I was running until recently.
> Kris