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From: Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com>
To: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.18/Reiser3 - lost directory and strange warnings
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 10:38:34 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4548BF7A.4090602@cfl.rr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061101082331.GA6438@gimli>

Martin Lorenz wrote:
> panic arose about an hour ago...
> a whole directory tree was suddenly gone and every try to access it resulted
> in an i/o error
> 
> the log shows this:

<snip>

> 
> a reboot into maintainance mode and fsck of the partition brought the dir
> back without data loss (pffffew!)
> 
> but I am still concerned, what has happened here?
> 

Your partition was damaged.

> a grep on my syslogs revealed quite a few similar warnings which I obviously
> diden't notice. - attached wich a few lines of context

Check for disk IO errors, and you also might want to run badblocks 
and/or the smartmontools on the device to check for hardware errors. 
Also a memtest86 for a few hours to rule out corrupted ram.

> 
> see http://www.lorenz.eu.org/~mlo/kernel/?C=M;O=D for more
> 
> 
> gruss
>   mlo
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      reply	other threads:[~2006-11-01 15:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-01  8:23 2.6.18/Reiser3 - lost directory and strange warnings Martin Lorenz
2006-11-01 15:38 ` Phillip Susi [this message]

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