i-node corruption -- who to contact?

[Stephen C. Tweedie]

Hi,

On Wed, 26 Jan 2000 15:52:03 -0700, Fred Christiansen
<fredch en boi.hp.com> said:

> The tool suite creates two partitions on a disk, creates an ext2 file system
> in the first partition, and then does file system testing (i.e., the 1st
> partition) and raw device testing (to the 2nd partition).  In the course
> of file system testing, explicit fsck -y -f's are occasionally
> performed.

On the live filesystem?  There are no cache coherency guarantees for
fsck on mounted filesystems.

Other than that, there were a couple of races fixed in the final 2.2.14
kernel release concerning interactions between block device access and
filesystem access to the same device, so even a readonly "fsck -n" on a
mounted device could cause the filesystem to get confused in certain
cases.  Can you reproduce the problems on 2.2.14 kernels?

--Stephen

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