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Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 10:44:38 -0600
From: Alex Adriaanse <alex.adriaanse@gmail.com>
Reply-To: Alex Adriaanse <alex.adriaanse@gmail.com>
To: Andreas Steinmetz <ast@domdv.de>
Subject: Re: Odd data corruption problem with LVM/ReiserFS
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On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 12:37:53 +0100, Andreas Steinmetz <ast@domdv.de> wrote:
> Alex Adriaanse wrote:
> > As far as I can tell all the directories are still intact, but there
> > was a good number of files that had been corrupted.  Those files
> > looked like they had some chunks removed, and some had a bunch of NUL
> > characters (in blocks of 4096 characters).  Some files even had chunks
> > of other files inside of them!
> 
> I can second that. I had the same experience this weekend on a
> md/dm/reiserfs setup. The funny thing is that e.g. find reports I/O
> errors but if you then run tar on the tree you eventually get the
> correct data from tar. Then run find again and you'll again get I/O errors.
The weird thing is I did not see any I/O errors in my logs, and
running find on /var worked without a problem.  By the way, did you
take any DM snapshots when you experienced that corruption?
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