From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolabs.com>
To: Jahn Veach <V64@Galaxy42.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, viro@math.psu.edu
Subject: Re: 2.4.15 + fs corruption.
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 17:11:43 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011123171143.M1308@lynx.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <013601c17479$933f0450$2b910404@Molybdenum>
In-Reply-To: <013601c17479$933f0450$2b910404@Molybdenum>; from V64@Galaxy42.com on Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 05:50:03PM -0600
On Nov 23, 2001 17:50 -0600, Jahn Veach wrote:
> > Breakage happens when you umount filesystem (_any_ local filesystem, be
> > it ext2, reiserfs, whatever) that still has dirty inodes.
>
> What kind of breakage are we looking at here? I had a system that ran 2.4.15
> and got shut down without a sync. What kind of corruption will occur and is
> it something a simple fsck will fix?
Well it appears to leave inodes around which do not point at existing files.
It is easy to fix on ext2/ext3, but may be harder for reiserfs. Maybe
reiserfs shows the problem differently, though, I don't know.
Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/
http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-24 0:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-23 23:50 2.4.15 + fs corruption Jahn Veach
2001-11-23 23:56 ` Russell King
2001-11-24 0:11 ` Andreas Dilger [this message]
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2001-11-23 22:45 war
2001-11-23 22:56 ` Alexander Viro
2001-11-23 23:10 ` Alexander Viro
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