Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 18:15:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 18:15:13 -0500 Received: from melancholia.rimspace.net ([210.23.138.19]:2829 "EHLO melancholia.danann.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 5 Feb 2002 18:14:55 -0500 To: kernel list Subject: Re: Warning, 2.5.3 eats filesystems In-Reply-To: <20020205192826.GA112@elf.ucw.cz> In-Reply-To: <20020205192826.GA112@elf.ucw.cz> (Pavel Machek's message of "Tue, 5 Feb 2002 20:28:26 +0100") From: Daniel Pittman Organization: Not today, thank you, Mother. Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 10:14:39 +1100 Message-ID: <878za7wmg0.fsf@inanna.rimspace.net> Lines: 23 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) XEmacs/21.5 (bamboo, i686-pc-linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > 2.5.3 managed to damage my ext2 filesystem (few lost directories); > beware. I can confirm that there are filesystem corruption issues with 2.5.3; after this message I rebooted and did a forced fsck which turned up around a half dozen inodes where the block count in the inode itself was too high. The box has been rock solid before this. Configuration: 00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) ext3 filesystem, data=journal mode. P-II 400, 288MB. Daniel -- C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg. -- Bjarne Stroustrup - 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/