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Other problems

Description

Problems with detecting hardware such as SCSI cards or LAN cards.

 

(Linux system specific)

 

 

Explanation

Problems when using an ASUS PR-DL533 motherboard: Linux does not detect hardware

 

correctly. It is a known problem of the Linux ACPI subsystem that it does not work correctly with

 

some motherboards. If specifying the general acpi=off option, it is possible that the ACPI

 

subsystem does not detect the hardware (on-board network card, SCSI card) correctly.

Workaround

Specify the following boot parameters:

 

 

acpi=oldboot pci=noacpi apm=power-off

Description

If you check for potential inconsistencies between a File System Catalog (FSC) and Fast

 

Recovery Information (FRI) data on the corresponding FSE media, the following lines may be

 

present in the output of the fsecheck --fsc-media <PartitionName> command:

 

DUMP:

FSC

FRI Notes

 

MigSize

<SizeInFSC>

<SizeInFRI>

MISMATCH

 

MigFlags

<FlagsInFSC>

<FlagsInFRI>

MISMATCH

 

The MISMATCH keywords indicate inconsistencies. After you invoke the command

 

fsecheck --fsc-media <PartitionName> --autocorrect to solve the underlying problems, these

 

inconsistencies are not resolved.

 

Explanation

Mismatches cannot be resolved using the fsecheck command. The command

 

fsecheck --fsc-media PartitionName --autocorrect only resolves situations

 

when information is missing either in the File System Catalog or on FSE media.

Workaround

To solve this problem, the problematic files need to be re-migrated. Proceed as follows:

 

1. Put each problematic file on the migration candidate list:

fsefile --migrate FileName...

2. Trigger migration on the FSE partition that stores the problematic files: fsefile --trigger-migrationPartitionName

For more information on the fsefile command, see the fsefile man page.

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File System Extender (FSE) specifications

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