Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1995 15:47:12 +0200 (SAT) From: John Hay <jhay@mikom.csir.co.za> To: peter@bonkers.taronga.com (Peter da Silva) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Directory entries get corrupted? Message-ID: <199501261347.PAA06693@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> In-Reply-To: <199501261237.GAA07421@bonkers.taronga.com> from "Peter da Silva" at Jan 26, 95 06:37:29 am
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> > Anything fsck tells you about an active file system should be taken with > a pinch of salt, a spoonful of sugar, and extreme suspicion. After all, it's > setpping through the disk looking for pointers to the wrong places while the > O/S is moving those pointers out from under it. It's no surprise that some > times the pointy end of a pointer is pointing to a block that's actually > holding something that pointer shouldn't be pointing to by the time it gets > around to it. > I get the same errors if I unmount that disk before doing the fsck. John Hay -- jhay@mikom.csir.co.za
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