On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> No, it's not a change in e2fsck, as far as I can tell. For some reason
> we've been getting more cases where garbage is getting written into the
> inode table. This is actually very troubling since you can lose a lot
> of data that way. I'm not sure why it's happening, though. But for
> some reason, there are cases where the Linux kernel is getting confused
> enough to scribble random data on an inode table. I've gotten enough
> questions about it such that I doubt it's a hardware problem. (Unless
> there's some common IDE or SCSI disk which scribbles random data on the
> disk during certain types of entertaining crashes or powerdown
> scenarios. Unlikely, but....)
> - Ted
>