From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263481AbTJLRKh (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Oct 2003 13:10:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263488AbTJLRKg (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Oct 2003 13:10:36 -0400 Received: from mail.parknet.co.jp ([210.171.160.6]:25861 "EHLO mail.parknet.co.jp") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263481AbTJLRKf (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Oct 2003 13:10:35 -0400 To: Ludovico Gardenghi Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: vfat corruption in 2.6.0? References: <20031012095720.GA21405@ripieno.somiere.org> From: OGAWA Hirofumi Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 02:10:09 +0900 In-Reply-To: <20031012095720.GA21405@ripieno.somiere.org> Message-ID: <87pth2jsb2.fsf@devron.myhome.or.jp> User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ludovico Gardenghi 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 > -- > #acheronte (irc.freenode.net) ICQ: 64483080 > GPG ID: 07F89BB8 Jabber: garden@jabber.students.cs.unibo.it > -- This is signature nr. 1249 > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > -- OGAWA Hirofumi