[TriLUG] ext3 surprise
Brian Daniels
bitmage at bellsouth.net
Thu Mar 25 13:34:45 EST 2004
On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 01:21:08PM -0500, Jeremy Portzer wrote:
> In other words, ext3 gave you the advantage that you knew for sure that
> /sbin/install-info was toast. You were guaranteed of knowing which
> files were inconsistent and which were fine. Without any journaling,
> there might have been files that passed an fsck fine, but actually had
> garbage data in them.
>
Two problems here:
1. ext3 gave no warning. The journal recovered without errors. If I
hadn't manually forced a fsck I would not have known of the corrupted file.
2. /sbin/install-info was _not_ a recently written file. It dates back to
1-24-2003, from the original RH9 install. The copy I was performing at the
time of crash was to the /home filesystem, on a separate partition from /.
I'm starting to wonder if something else corrupted that file in the past,
and I'm only now finding it. With ext3 you don't usually run fsck's.
I'm thinking I may run some fsck's on other systems today...
--Brian
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Brian Daniels bitmage at bellsouth.net
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