From: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
To: Ludovico Gardenghi <garden@despammed.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: vfat corruption in 2.6.0?
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 02:10:09 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pth2jsb2.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031012095720.GA21405@ripieno.somiere.org>
Ludovico Gardenghi <garden@despammed.com> writes:
> He has a quite big vfat partition (60 GB) created with mkfs.vfat; he
> ran a program that had to write ~5000 files summing up to 18 GB but
> some hour after that program started (it's a simulation tool that
> runs for ~20 hours on an athlon XP 2500+) his /var started to fill with
> log errors of "attempt to access beyond the end of the device".
> The files are very fragmented because they are written line by line
> more or less in parallel.
>
> Moreover, the partition resulted unmountable and fsck.vfat could not
> manage to repair it --- the only solution being running MS win's
> scandisk tool. After the repair some of the smaller files on the disk
> got lost and some part of the bigger files got corrupted.
>
> This happened twice (with test3 and test6) and the partition was
> completely erased and re-created between the 2 crashes.
>
> I can't tell much more than this because my friend had to erase his logs
> because they filled up /var.
>
> Ludovico
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OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-12 17:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-12 9:57 vfat corruption in 2.6.0? Ludovico Gardenghi
2003-10-12 17:10 ` OGAWA Hirofumi [this message]
2003-10-12 17:18 ` OGAWA Hirofumi
2003-10-13 18:10 ` [despammed] " Ludovico Gardenghi
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