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Subject: Re: linux-2.5.59 kills ld.so.cache and some shared libraries. 
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From: Horst von Brand <brand@jupiter.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
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"Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com> said:

[...]

> However, after running it for an hour, I tried to reboot. The
> root file-system was permanently busy so it didn't get un-mounted.
> 
> Upon re-boot, there was a very long fsck in which a lot of
> stuff had to be "fixed", much more than simply a bad dismount.

I've seen this with PIIX and Western Digital IDE disks with DMA on on
several 2.4 kernels: Slow(ish) corruption of filesystems, even when
read-mostly. It looks like accesing the filesystem screws it up, not only
writing (i.e., / is at highest risk, even if you almost never write there).
It is quite entertaining to have /etc turn into a plain file...

Dunno if related. 
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