Re: Irritating ext2fs corruption

Jan Niehusmann (post002@gondor.com)
Tue, 4 Aug 1998 12:59:12 +0200


On Tue, Aug 04, 1998 at 02:10:19AM +0200, Jakob Borg wrote:
> I _can_ reproduce this. I do not think it is new to latest 2.1.11x
> kernels. (vaguely remeber seeing this before, will check later tonight
> or tomorrow)

It's probably not new in 2.1.* - I get 'zero dtime' even with 2.0.35.
I don't know how they are generated, as I don't normally fsck unless
I had an unclean shutdown (and then it's normal to get some fs errors).
But every now and then fsck gets forced by 'maximum mount count reached'.
I assume that these fsck are not expected to find any fs problems - but
they very often report zero dtime errors.

May it be that deleted inodes are not reliably written to disk on unmount?

Jan

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