Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: filesystem corruption (ReiserFS, 2.6.6): regions replaced by \000 bytes | From | Chris Mason <> | Date | Fri, 28 May 2004 08:46:03 -0400 |
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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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