Jim Buzbee wrote:
>
> Seth Mos wrote:
> >
> > 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.
Anyone else out there see this one? It's repeatable every time for me
and has been happening for a couple of months. I just now figured out
what was happening...
Jim
>
> 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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