Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 00:04:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 00:03:56 -0500 Received: from host113.south.iit.edu ([216.47.130.113]:30592 "EHLO lostlogicx.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 00:03:45 -0500 Message-ID: <3C50E72F.6070909@lostlogicx.com> Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 23:03:43 -0600 From: Lost Logic User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.7) Gecko/20011221 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Corruption under 2.4.18-pre6-O1J5 [+2.4.17] In-Reply-To: <3C50D104.2050608@lostlogicx.com> <3C50E480.6B5F7591@cisco.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I had let mine go too long (due to server problems) and therefore had to reiserfsck --rebuild-tree inorder to fix the stuff up. Richard Kinder wrote: >I have experienced corruption under 2.4.17 similar to this, not massive, but >enough corruption to severely restrict operation - files in /etc were >corrupted, mtab couldn't be created on boot thus no other drives were mounted. >Machine was shut down properly prior to this, no oopses or other strange >behaviour (other than my inability to get a Sycard PCMCIA adapter working) > >I was still able to log in as root and force a check of / on next reboot, >which fixed the problem up (about 3 files were cleared, including mtab, IIRC). > >Config file/system details available if anyone is interested. > >Regards, > Richard > >Lost Logic wrote: > >>I use Reiserfs for all of my partitions, and soon after upgrading to >>linux-2.4.18-pre6-O1J5 I started getting massive data corruption in my >>/etc directory, strangely enough ONLY in that directory. I've attached >>the .config I used for that kernel, unfortunately I have been unable to >>do further testing, because at the same time I had problems on my >>production box, and had to use my toy box to fix it (so I couldn't >>afford to have my toy box down any more). >> >>Hope this is helpful/interesting! >> >>--Brandon >> > >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in >the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/