Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 26 Jan 2000 15:52:03 -0700 | From | Fred Christiansen <> | Subject | i-node corruption -- who to contact? |
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Kindly forgive this posting from a non-subscriber. I'm more of a test tool person than a kernel hacker (altho I did a bit of SysV.[234] kernel work in a past life). However the issue I'm facing involves the kernel, so I have presumed to post to this list.
As part of my work for HP, I have ported an HP-proprietary mass storage test suite that is used within HP (and by our partners) from HP-UX to Red Hat Linux 6.x and Windows NT 4.0.
The tool suite creates two partitions on a disk, creates an ext2 file system in the first partition, and then does file system testing (i.e., the 1st partition) and raw device testing (to the 2nd partition). In the course of file system testing, explicit fsck -y -f's are occasionally performed. On occasion the fsck will detect corrupted i-nodes (is that what they're called in ext2? I'm using HP-UX and AT&T SysV terminology) -- that is, I get reams of "Inode xxxx is in use, but has dtime set" msgs, followed by reams of "Illegal block #x (yyy) in inode zzzz". What's remarkable about all the "yyy" numbers is that they are from the data that the test tools write to _files_ (the tool writes distinctive patterns). {I have also had splotches of nulls show up in data files on systems not running the test suite, but that's another issue.}
I have sent e-mail on several occasions in recent months to Theodore T'so as well as to Doug Ledford (at Red Hat, since his name appears in the aic7xxx.c driver). Neither of these gentleman have responded to me. Are these the appropriate individuals to contact? If it would be deemed appropriate I can send test results to anyone interested.
Please cc: me on any responses. Thx. -- Fred Christiansen, a Canajan (Eh?) in Idaho ................................. fredch@boi.hp.com (specific) // fred_christiansen@hp.com (general) Folk inside HP's firewall can access: http://hpbs1668.boi.hp.com/~fredch/ and: http://hpbs1668.boi.hp.com/hazard/
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