On 20:21 20 Jan 2002, Skylar Thompson <skylar@starfleet.attglobal.net> wrote: | On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 09:37:44PM +0000, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: | > There's not enough information here for us to have any hope of | > diagnosing it accurately. What sort of IO errors were you getting? | > -EIO errors returned to the application, or IO errors from device | > drivers in the kernel console? | | No, nothing like that. Whenever I tried accessing an affected file, I would | get something like this: | | foo: Input/output error. | | I never got errors of any kind to the console, just to stderr. This is why | I suspect it might be a filesystem problem, rather than a physical disk | problem. Ok, what does: strace cat foo say? -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 cs@zip.com.au http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ Symbol? What's a symbol? This is a rose. - R.A. MacAvoy, _Tea with the Black Dragon_