From: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>,
viro@math.psu.edu, kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: torvalds@transmeta.com
Subject: Re: [patch] linux likes to kill bad inodes
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 09:29:53 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <302200000.988205393@tiny> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010422141042.A1354@bug.ucw.cz>
On Sunday, April 22, 2001 02:10:42 PM +0200 Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I had a temporary disk failure (played with acpi too much). What
> happened was that disk was not able to do anything for five minutes
> or so. When disk recovered, linux happily overwrote all inodes it
> could not read while disk was down with zeros -> massive disk
> corruption.
>
> Solution is not to write bad inodes back to disk.
>
Wouldn't we rather make it so bad inodes don't get marked dirty at all?
-chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-04-25 13:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-04-22 12:10 [patch] linux likes to kill bad inodes Pavel Machek
2001-04-25 13:29 ` Chris Mason [this message]
2001-04-25 20:01 ` Pavel Machek
2001-04-25 20:28 ` Chris Mason
2001-04-26 9:28 ` Pavel Machek
2001-04-26 9:33 ` Jan Kara
2001-04-26 22:28 ` Pavel Machek
2001-04-27 14:36 ` Chris Mason
2001-04-27 22:07 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-04-27 22:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-04-30 22:28 ` Alan Cox
2001-04-30 22:33 ` David S. Miller
2001-04-30 23:22 ` Linus Torvalds
[not found] <no.id>
2001-04-27 23:30 ` Andreas Dilger
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