Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Nov 2002 00:12:55 -0500 (EST) | From | Clemmitt Sigler <> | Subject | 2.4.20-rc3 ext3 fsck corruption -- tool update warning needed? |
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Hi,
I'd been running 2.4.20-rc3 for two days. While rebooting it tonight fsck.ext3 corrupted my / partition during an automatic fsck of the partition (caused by the maximal mount count being reached). (I had backups so I was able to recover :^) The symptoms were that some files like /etc/fstab and dirs like /etc/rc2.d disappeared -- not good.
My system is Debian Testing, with Debian e2fsprogs version 1.29+1.30-WIP-0930-1. I use ext3 partitions with all options set to the defaults (ordered data mode). This is an SMP system, in case that matters. Please e-mail me for any other details that might help.
I'm wondering if this change between -rc1 and -rc2 might be a factor ->
<tytso@think.thunk.org> HTREE backwards compatibility patch.
Upon rebooting to 2.4.19 (SMP kernel also), the system did another auto-fsck.ext3, this time on /usr. I held my breath, but all went fine. This seems to me to narrow it down to a kernel/e2fsprogs incompatibility (but I'm not an expert).
If this is indeed the case, please put a LOUD WARNING in the kernel notes that some versions of e2fsprogs are incompatible. HTH.
Clemmitt Sigler
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