Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Jul 2011 13:15:36 +0100 | Subject | corrupted ext4 1000gb filesystem (2.6.32, debian stable) | From | Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <> |
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folks, hi,
i set up a 1000gb RAID1 mirrored filesystem, possibly in a foolish way (multiple external USB drives) and had not added a fsck check to the script which dynamically assembles the drives. naively and yet happily i followed this advice, here:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/06/msg02164.html
the problem was that uh, yeah, the ext4 filesystem _did_ end up getting massively corrupted, very very quickly (within weeks), and i don't entirely know how. at approx 50% filled, i carried out another copy operation of several tens of thousands of files (backup of a system with about 10gb usage) and it was these files and directories that had the worst level of filesystem corruption.
so my question is: has anyone else encountered significant filesystem corruption of large (1000gb+) ext4 filesystems, with any *recent* 2.6 linux kernels?
tia,
l.
p.s. yes fsck has now been added to the drive assembly script, but i am not yet filled with confidence that everything will be hunky-dory.
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