On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Wenzel Jakob wrote:
> Hello,
> I am experiencing XFS file system corruption on a vanilla kernel.org
> kernel 2.6.7 (the only additional module is the nvidia driver which
> really shouldn't be the cause of the problems).
Actually, that is historically the cause of this problem. Check the list
arvhives and you'll find alot of reports of people seeing wacky problems
when using the nvidia X driver.
> The problem is that, all of a sudden, files have the content of an
> entirely different file. For example one second I am editing a .cpp
> file, the next moment I open it up again, it is a jpeg file from a
> directory containing my digital camera pictures. The original .cpp
> file was lost, so the files were not exchanged.
Sounds like bad hardware to me.
>
> This has happened to me before with previous kernels from 2.6 - what I
> usually did is run knoppix and fsck the filesystem which seemed to
> stop it for a while.
There is no fsck for XFS. What exactly were you running?
> I cannot reproduce this behavior, it seems completely random and only
> happens every couple of weeks. Also, I have only noticed this with
> files on which I am actively working - who knows, maybe many more
> files have some wrong content by now.
>
> I am very certain that this is not a virus or an intrusion and is
> caused by the filesystem. If anyone has some advice, I am open to
> every suggestion.
Have you checked your logs (particularly messages) for errors? This
sounds like a hardware problem, or the nvidia driver is eating you disk.
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