Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 21 Feb 2005 10:44:38 -0600 | | From | Alex Adriaanse <> | | Subject | Re: Odd data corruption problem with LVM/ReiserFS |
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On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 12:37:53 +0100, Andreas Steinmetz <ast@domdv.de> wrote: > Alex Adriaanse wrote: > > As far as I can tell all the directories are still intact, but there > > was a good number of files that had been corrupted. Those files > > looked like they had some chunks removed, and some had a bunch of NUL > > characters (in blocks of 4096 characters). Some files even had chunks > > of other files inside of them! > > I can second that. I had the same experience this weekend on a > md/dm/reiserfs setup. The funny thing is that e.g. find reports I/O > errors but if you then run tar on the tree you eventually get the > correct data from tar. Then run find again and you'll again get I/O errors. The weird thing is I did not see any I/O errors in my logs, and running find on /var worked without a problem. By the way, did you take any DM snapshots when you experienced that corruption? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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