Re: ext3fs corruption problem?

From: Igor Briski (igorb@iskon.hr)
Date: Fri Jan 04 2002 - 09:56:11 EST


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 
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