Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 25 Apr 2001 09:29:53 -0400 | From | Chris Mason <> | Subject | Re: [patch] linux likes to kill bad inodes |
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On Sunday, April 22, 2001 02:10:42 PM +0200 Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> wrote:
> Hi! > > I had a temporary disk failure (played with acpi too much). What > happened was that disk was not able to do anything for five minutes > or so. When disk recovered, linux happily overwrote all inodes it > could not read while disk was down with zeros -> massive disk > corruption. > > Solution is not to write bad inodes back to disk. >
Wouldn't we rather make it so bad inodes don't get marked dirty at all?
-chris
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