Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 01 Nov 2006 10:38:34 -0500 | From | Phillip Susi <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.18/Reiser3 - lost directory and strange warnings |
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Martin Lorenz wrote: > panic arose about an hour ago... > a whole directory tree was suddenly gone and every try to access it resulted > in an i/o error > > the log shows this:
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> > a reboot into maintainance mode and fsck of the partition brought the dir > back without data loss (pffffew!) > > but I am still concerned, what has happened here? >
Your partition was damaged.
> a grep on my syslogs revealed quite a few similar warnings which I obviously > diden't notice. - attached wich a few lines of context
Check for disk IO errors, and you also might want to run badblocks and/or the smartmontools on the device to check for hardware errors. Also a memtest86 for a few hours to rule out corrupted ram.
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