From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 4 Jan 2002 09:56:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 4 Jan 2002 09:56:36 -0500 Received: from inje.iskon.hr ([213.191.128.16]:42641 "EHLO inje.iskon.hr") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 4 Jan 2002 09:56:18 -0500 Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 15:56:11 +0100 From: Igor Briski To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ext3fs corruption problem? Message-ID: <20020104155611.A7833@iskon.hr> In-Reply-To: <20011227120659.O3081@tsunami.iskon.hr> <3C2B77B9.6143EE1E@zip.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <3C2B77B9.6143EE1E@zip.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.18i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 11:34:17AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > I've noticed several files missing in last few days and this > > also started happening: > > > > webmail1 [/space/cwmail/mail/n_z1/f6/jejka74_Pmail_Ixxx_Ixx/2] # ls -la > > total 32 > > drwx--S--- 2 www-data www-data 4096 Nov 25 22:47 . > > drwx--S--- 5 www-data www-data 4096 Dec 26 14:48 .. > > -rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 1011 Nov 25 22:47 index.dat > > -rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 18446744069414584903 Nov 23 22:25 m_0.dat > > There was a truncate problem which could allow this. It was fixed > in 2.4.17. Deleting the file and running fsck will clean it up. > > Could you please fsck the filesystems, see what it says? Fsck found no errors. > Also, please check the logs for any errors or warnings from the > filesystem and from RAID. None found. Anyway, I've compiled 2.4.17. and it looks ok now. I've mounted /space partition as ext3, data=writeback and found no errors in the last few days. I'm keeping an eye on it... -- Igor Briški -- igor.briski@iskon.hr