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SubjectRe: filesystem corruption (ReiserFS, 2.6.6): regions replaced by \000 bytes
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On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 08:28, David Madore wrote:
> Hi folks.
>
> I'm afraid this bug-report will be rather worthless as it is, because
> the bug has proven remarkable elusive and has defeated all my attempts
> to track it down to a precise test case or set of circumstances. But
> since it seems important, I thought it might be worth a post anyway.
> Any help is appreciated in clarifying the circumstances which trigger
> the problem, or generally in making this report more useful.
>
> The bottom line: I've experienced file corruption, of the following
> nature: consecutive regions (all, it seems, aligned on 256-byte
> boundaries, and typically around 1kb or 2kb in length) of seemingly
> random files are replaced by null bytes.

The good news is that we tracked this one down recently. 2.6.7-rc1
shouldn't do this anymore.

-chris


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