Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 23 Nov 2001 17:11:43 -0700 | From | Andreas Dilger <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.15 + fs corruption. |
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On Nov 23, 2001 17:50 -0600, Jahn Veach wrote: > > Breakage happens when you umount filesystem (_any_ local filesystem, be > > it ext2, reiserfs, whatever) that still has dirty inodes. > > What kind of breakage are we looking at here? I had a system that ran 2.4.15 > and got shut down without a sync. What kind of corruption will occur and is > it something a simple fsck will fix?
Well it appears to leave inodes around which do not point at existing files. It is easy to fix on ext2/ext3, but may be harder for reiserfs. Maybe reiserfs shows the problem differently, though, I don't know.
Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/
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