Re: VERY URGENT: "cp -a" creates mysteriously "hidden" files?!

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2001-12-18 at 14:35, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote:

> I tried that before (XFS-1.0.2 under 2.4.14,) but with very bad results: 
> After 
> some gigs I would receive the following errors (more or less reproducably):
> 
>     Dec 18 13:46:39 Fileserver kernel: xfs_force_shutdown(sd(8,37),0x8) 
> called 
> from line 1020 of file xfs_trans.c.  Return address = 0xe093c9aa
>     Dec 18 13:46:39 Fileserver kernel: Corruption of in-memory data detected. 
>  
> Shutting down filesystem: sd(8,37)
>     Dec 18 13:46:39 Fileserver kernel: Please umount the filesystem, and 
> rectify the problem(s)

How certain are you of your hardware?  xfs_force_shutdown can happen
when it encounters a hardware error... check cables/termination/etc?

No promises, but that could be it.

-Eric

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