Re: Serious ext2fs problem
Ricky Beam (root@defiant.interpath.net)
Tue, 31 Dec 1996 17:33:43 -0500 (EST)
Letting the chips far where they may, I quote Chris Adams:
>...
>Once the errors start happening, they keep happening at the same place
>over and over again. However, if I stop INN, umount the drive, mount
>the drive, and start INN, everything is happy (I had it giving me the
>above error twice everytime I tried to tell INN to "go"). Since I
>umounted the drive and remounted it, it has been running just fine for
>~24 hours. That doesn't seem like hardware to me.
That is a "feature" of the buffer cache. If something ever gets put in the
cache wrong, then you'll play hell getting it back out. I've got a SIMM on
my desk that will cause simmilar things to happen -- it's my luck /bin/tcsh
gets sucked off the disk and written to bad spot in memory and it's SEGV
from then on. The umount/mount is clearing the buffer cache.
--Ricky