Re: Warning, 2.5.3 eats filesystems

From: Pavel Machek (pavel@ucw.cz)
Date: Fri Feb 08 2002 - 06:14:59 EST


Hi!

> > > > 2.5.3 managed to damage my ext2 filesystem (few lost directories);
> > > > beware.
> >
> > > I can confirm that there are filesystem corruption issues with 2.5.3;
> > > after this message I rebooted and did a forced fsck which turned up
> > > around a half dozen inodes where the block count in the inode itself was
> > > too high.
> >
> > Exactly the same thing here, and I bet it _is_ 2.5.3 and not a relict from
> > a 2.5.3-pre patch because I switched directly from 2.4.17 to 2.5.3
> > without ever using any pre patch at this machine.
>
> Very interesting. Which filesystems are mounted (other than ext2) and
> are you been able to reproduce it on 2.5.3-pre6?

Mounted filesystems:

/dev/hda2 on / type ext2 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
...
none on /proc type proc (rw)
/dev/hda3 on /suse type ext2 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw)
/dev/cfs0 on /overlay type coda (rw)

(I wander what is responsible for mounting /proc hundred times?)

But... you should know that I'm strongly suspecting ide subsystem:

Feb 8 12:08:02 amd kernel: hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Feb 8 12:08:02 amd kernel: hda: drive not ready for command
Feb 8 12:08:02 amd kernel: ide0: reset: success
Feb 8 12:09:26 amd kernel: hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Feb 8 12:09:26 amd kernel: hda: drive not ready for command
Feb 8 12:09:26 amd kernel: ide0: reset: success
Feb 8 12:12:27 amd kernel: hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
Feb 8 12:12:27 amd kernel: hda: drive not ready for command
Feb 8 12:12:27 amd kernel: ide0: reset: success

I'm trying to test it with md5sum, but so far it behaves ok. [I wonder
what directory I'll loose this time ... :-(]
                                                                        Pavel

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