I have been running 2.3.41 for a few weeks. Some small files
are getting corrupted. It's interesting that they are files
that are not normally opened for write.
Script started on Tue Feb 8 12:42:08 2000
# od -xa README
0000000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
nul nul nul nul nul nul nul nul nul nul nul nul nul nul nul nul
*
0000200 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
nul nul nul nul nul nul nul nul nul nul nul nul nul nul
0000216
# exit
Script done on Tue Feb 8 12:42:19 2000
Here is a 'typical' README file which is now filled with nulls. So
far, I have found 12 to 15 such small files in a 3 gigabyte partition,
with inodes that contain just nulls. e2fsck doesn't find anything wrong.
I have not found any file greater than 1024 bytes in length that has
been corrupted. It seems to be happening only to small files.
I use a BusLogic SCSI controller with no such previous problems.
I can duplicate the problem.
# echo "foo" >README
# cat README
foo
# cd /usr/src/linux
# make clean
# make bzImage
## Wait to finish
# cd ~
# cat README
.NULLS
Now, if I do
# echo "foo" >README
# sync
Then rebuild the kernel, the file contents are okay, but they
might not be if I unmount the file-system and remount it.
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.3.41 on an i686 machine (800.63 BogoMips).
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