At 14:36 14-1-2002 -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
Hi Joy -
Hm, I have never seen file versions from "a few days back" - usually on
a lock-up, you only have problems with files written in the last ~30
seconds - and then, you don't get the old version back, anyway.
1.0 is pretty ancient these days, if you're going to continue using the
machine I would strongly recommend upgrading to XFS release 1.0.2.
There is probably no way to recover data that you have lost through a
crash, it looks in your case like it never even hit the disk. Are you
_certain_ that the newer versions were ever really there on this
machine?
I have seen this happen when kswapd or kupdated hangs. This sounds a bit
like it.
Sync hangs the box and I think the box locked because off the amount of
processes waiting to get data written. I have seen this happen myself. If
this happens sync/mount and some other utilities won't work and you can't
get that data back.
Upgrading to a newer version is indeed a smart idea.
Cheers
--
Seth
Every program has two purposes one for which
it was written and another for which it wasn't
I use the last kind.
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