Re: Filesystem corruption

[Ingo Bormuth <ibormuth@efil.de>]

On 2007-05-30 15:03, David Masover wrote:

> Only, recently, these fsck-a-thons started happening more and more often, and 
> I started to lose random files. They'd just be silently truncated to 0 bytes. 
> And not files I was writing a lot -- I'm talking about things 
> like /bin/mount.

Hm, same here. I lost /bin/sleep several times. I have a little script
printing status messages to the screen, sleeping two seconds and print
again - you name it. The probability that /bin/sleep is accessed at the
same time the system crashes is quite high (this is _no_ write access,
the system is even mounted noatime).

How could pure execution of a file cause corruption of the file itself?
Any idea ?

Apart from that single file, I never had any serious problems with
reiser4 on three busy systems for years - fsck.reiser4 works like charme.


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