Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 21 Aug 1996 12:12:51 +1000 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | FS damage |
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Hi, all. Last night I had a system hang while the X server was starting up, and lost many files from the fsck -A -a cleanup. Some files were in /dev (tty1 tty2 tty), which is possibly expected since the files were opened read-write, but what I didn't expect was that files such as : /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb.txt (which only has read access) were also removed by fsck. Tracing the server I note that rgb.txt is opened read-only, mmaped with PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, closed and unmapped. After this the server starts probing the hardware, and sometime later it hangs the machine. This would seem to be a bug in the FS code, since the file was not written to, and hence there should be nothing to flush from the buffer cache. Does anyone have any clues as to what's going on? I'm running kernel 2.0.0, libc 5.3.7 with ext2fs filesystems.
Regards,
Richard....
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