Re: Mild filesystem corruption on ext4 (no journal)

Eric Sandeen
2009-06-05T18:12:58Z

Alan Jenkins wrote:
> Eric Sandeen wrote:

>> Maybe you could try some things in your shutdown script, such as
>> explicitly fsyncing the file, or bmapping it with filefrag, or dropping
>> caches and rereading it... see what the state is just before the
>> shutdown compared to after the reboot.
>>
>> -Eric
>>
>
> Dropping caches (and running sync first) had no effect on the result of
> md5sum. Hopefully that narrows it down a bit.

And did the reread after dropping caches have the right data?

Did the block numbers reported by filefrag -v change post-boot?

-Eric