From: Lost Logic <lostlogic@lostlogicx.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Corruption under 2.4.18-pre6-O1J5 [+2.4.17]
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 23:03:43 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C50E72F.6070909@lostlogicx.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C50D104.2050608@lostlogicx.com> <3C50E480.6B5F7591@cisco.com>
I had let mine go too long (due to server problems) and therefore had to
reiserfsck --rebuild-tree inorder to fix the stuff up.
Richard Kinder wrote:
>I have experienced corruption under 2.4.17 similar to this, not massive, but
>enough corruption to severely restrict operation - files in /etc were
>corrupted, mtab couldn't be created on boot thus no other drives were mounted.
>Machine was shut down properly prior to this, no oopses or other strange
>behaviour (other than my inability to get a Sycard PCMCIA adapter working)
>
>I was still able to log in as root and force a check of / on next reboot,
>which fixed the problem up (about 3 files were cleared, including mtab, IIRC).
>
>Config file/system details available if anyone is interested.
>
>Regards,
> Richard
>
>Lost Logic wrote:
>
>>I use Reiserfs for all of my partitions, and soon after upgrading to
>>linux-2.4.18-pre6-O1J5 I started getting massive data corruption in my
>>/etc directory, strangely enough ONLY in that directory. I've attached
>>the .config I used for that kernel, unfortunately I have been unable to
>>do further testing, because at the same time I had problems on my
>>production box, and had to use my toy box to fix it (so I couldn't
>>afford to have my toy box down any more).
>>
>>Hope this is helpful/interesting!
>>
>>--Brandon
>>
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-25 3:29 Corruption under 2.4.18-pre6-O1J5 Lost Logic
2002-01-25 4:52 ` Corruption under 2.4.18-pre6-O1J5 [+2.4.17] Richard Kinder
2002-01-25 5:03 ` Lost Logic [this message]
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