Re: xfs mknod bug?

[Seth Mos <knuffie@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 08:07 14-12-2001 -0700, Jim Buzbee wrote:

> I'm running an xfs patched 2.4.8 kernel on an x86 platform and am having
> repeatable problems with the mknod command on an xfs partition.  Here's
> an example :
>
> # mknod test c 1 2
> # sync
> # sync
> # sync
> # ls -al test
> crw-r--r--   1 root     root       1,   2 Dec 14 14:57 test
>
> I then reset the system by cycling power.  Upon reboot :
>
> # ls -al test
> crw-r--r--   1 root     root       0,   0 Dec 14  2001 test
>
> If I do a "clean" reboot and unmount the partition normally, I do not
> get this behavior.  Is this a known issue?

No. You synced the file so it _should_ be on disk. This is very weird. I 
know of files with a size but NULL characters inside but this one is new.

Needs looking into.

Cheers

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Seth
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