Re: vfat corruption in 2.6.0?

[OGAWA Hirofumi]

Ludovico Gardenghi <garden@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> He has a quite big vfat partition (60 GB) created with mkfs.vfat; he
> ran a program that had to write ~5000 files summing up to 18 GB but
> some hour after that program started (it's a simulation tool that
> runs for ~20 hours on an athlon XP 2500+) his /var started to fill with
> log errors of "attempt to access beyond the end of the device".
> The files are very fragmented because they are written line by line
> more or less in parallel.
> 
> Moreover, the partition resulted unmountable and fsck.vfat could not
> manage to repair it --- the only solution being running MS win's
> scandisk tool. After the repair some of the smaller files on the disk
> got lost and some part of the bigger files got corrupted.
> 
> This happened twice (with test3 and test6) and the partition was
> completely erased and re-created between the 2 crashes.
> 
> I can't tell much more than this because my friend had to erase his logs
> because they filled up /var.
> 
> Ludovico
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