Re: null character filesystem corruption with 2.4.6

[Colin Walters <walters@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx> writes:

> How many times has this system crashed?  The only time I have seen
> null characters is when I had a system crash, and some files which
> were being actively written to came up with nulls after recovery.
> This is because the metadata (size) had been written out to disk,
> but the data itself had not.

I see.  It's only crashed once.  It is probably (actually, certainly)
my fault that the corruption was so severe; I just exited from the
kernel debugger and continued reading my email, which was about the
dumbest thing I could do.  Oh, well.  I've learned my lesson :)

So far findnull hasn't found any new nulled files, so I think I'll
continue using XFS.  I will let you know if it does find new ones,
though.

Thanks!