Re: interesting FS corruption(?)

Michael Marxmeier (mike@msede.com)
Mon, 25 Jan 1999 10:00:47 +0100

Olaf Titz wrote:
>
> Got this twice in a few weeks now:
> suddenly, all regular files in a directory disappear. e2fsck finds no
> errors. No trace in the logs. This is Linux 2.1.131 with the knfsd
> patches, gcc 2.8.1.
>
> Yes, it looks with certainty like a userlevel program gone awry.
> However, I have unsuccessfully checked the usual suspects in all
> crontabs and I want to rule out any kernel problem. Has anyone else
> seen this?

Yes. Happenend to me once with pre9. All regular files in the
root directory were gone (with no ext2 corruption).
I tried but have been unable to reproduce it.

Michael

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