From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 23 Nov 2001 19:15:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 23 Nov 2001 19:15:23 -0500 Received: from h24-64-71-161.cg.shawcable.net ([24.64.71.161]:20983 "EHLO lynx.adilger.int") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 23 Nov 2001 19:15:11 -0500 Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 17:11:43 -0700 From: Andreas Dilger To: Jahn Veach Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, viro@math.psu.edu Subject: Re: 2.4.15 + fs corruption. Message-ID: <20011123171143.M1308@lynx.no> Mail-Followup-To: Jahn Veach , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, viro@math.psu.edu In-Reply-To: <013601c17479$933f0450$2b910404@Molybdenum> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <013601c17479$933f0450$2b910404@Molybdenum>; from V64@Galaxy42.com on Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 05:50:03PM -0600 X-GPG-Key: 1024D/0D35BED6 X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7A37 5D79 BF1B CECA D44F 8A29 A488 39F5 0D35 BED6 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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/