From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ingo Bormuth Subject: Re: Filesystem corruption Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 02:11:51 +0200 Message-ID: <20070531001151.GA9933@efil.de> References: <160382.11806.qm@web31708.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <200705301503.15105.ninja@slaphack.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200705301503.15105.ninja@slaphack.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com 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. -- Ingo Bormuth, voicebox & fax: +49-(0)-12125-10226517 public key 86326EC9, http://ibormuth.efil.de/contact