On Sat, 9 Mar 2002, sandeen@xxxxxxx (Eric Sandeen) wrote:
> Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2002 22:22:17 -0600 (CST)
> To: Sebastian Ude <ude@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> From: sandeen@xxxxxxx (Eric Sandeen)
> CC: <linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: Random filesystem corruption
[...]
> Can you do an "strace" on a simple program that tries to open one of
> these files, and send the last bit (the failed open)?
Nothing exiting:
/* [...] */
open("/home/sebastian/WU RB Gebührenstaffels.txt", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No
such file or directory)
/* [...] */
By the way - I noticed that all files that were damaged *yesterday*
contained German Umlauts (the letters u, o, a with two dots above them:
ü, ö, ä) in their names. However, I am sure that in the past files without
Umlauts in the name got damaged as well.
> Also - are you experiencing this problem on several different machines?
No, it's all on the same machine.
> I assume this is local, not NFS access?
Correct, local.
> When you have a file with this problem, though, I assume the behavior is
> repeatable on that file?
You mean that open () says they do not exist, although they are listed in their
parent directory ? Yes, it's always the same.
> Out of curiosity, do either the files or the directories have
> "international" characters in the names?
Errr ... yep, see above. But again, in the past also files or directories
without "international" characters in the names got corrupted.
> Decoding the oops through ksymoops would be helpful. If you could enable
> kdb, that might help us get more information.
This time there is no oops, unfortuantely. It could be that there was only a
oops with some kernel versions, but I am not sure.
> > xfs_repair, but the corrupted files were lost.
>
> What does xfs_repair tell you now? Does it find any problems?
I have not run it yet because it could not recover my data the last time (if I
remember correctly).
> If you go back to an older kernel (perhaps the released 1.0.2 kernel)
> does the problem go away?
Well, that problem occours perhaps one time a month - and I have no idea how to
reproduce it. So if I would try another kernel, I could perhaps tell you in
April or May if there was no data
corruption ...
- Sebastian
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