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From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Heikki Orsila <shdl@zakalwe.fi>
Cc: Chris Holvenstot <cholvenstot@comcast.net>,
	kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Major SATA / EXT3 Issue?
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 03:25:54 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071031072554.GC20965@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071030135923.GA3441@zakalwe.fi>

On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 03:59:24PM +0200, Heikki Orsila wrote:
> 3. fsck -p on boot failed
> 
> (it is very probable not many files were corrupted at this stage)

Maybe...
> 
> 4. I ran fsck.ext3 -y
> 
> => that corrupted lots and lots of files. This went 
> into a loop, the fsck.ext3 restarted checking over and over again.

It's possible that e2fsck corrupted the files, but they also could
have been corrupted earlier by the earlier I/O errors.  There are some
relatively rare filesystem corruptions which e2fsck doesn't handle as
gracefully as it should, though, I will admit.  I would need to see
the e2fsck transcript to be sure. 

Were there any messages about needing to relocate inode tables by any
chance?

						- Ted

  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-31  7:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-27  2:21 Major SATA / EXT3 Issue? Chris Holvenstot
2007-10-27 12:47 ` Alan Cox
2007-10-31 10:08   ` Chris Holvenstot
2007-10-27 14:14 ` Clemens Koller
2007-10-30 13:59 ` Heikki Orsila
2007-10-31  7:25   ` Theodore Tso [this message]
2007-10-31  9:24     ` Heikki Orsila
     [not found] <fa.g6cnSE4eZYP/DJbEoDA1gYUnPfo@ifi.uio.no>
2007-10-28 18:37 ` Robert Hancock
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-11-02  0:30 Norbert Preining

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