On Wed, 25 Oct 2006, Rajaraman Ramanarayanan wrote:
I am doing some testing on a PXA270 based processor (on a single board
computer) which makes the processor vulnerable to bit flips. One
such bit flips seems to have corrupted the file system.
I don't know these PXA270 processors but your comment reads as if the
processor is "prone to bit-flips by design", which I can't believe...so,
I guess the cpu broke somehow, was overheated or sth.?
If so, that's like having faulty memory or faulty data-paths in
general (bus errors, bad cabling, too hot processors, etc...). And kinds
of errors can be caused by this and the fs can't do much about it
because the code in the fs-driver (any fs) isn't executed in the way it is
meant to.
segrith.cse.psu.edu 66% du -khs bin
426G bin
segrith.cse.psu.edu 67% ll
total 446404348
cr-Sr-S--- 8240 959265076 876099129 32, 50 Oct 2 1997 bin
so, the system thinks /bin is a 426 GB character device on a 4GB
filesystem?
you could run a recent version of e2fsck and see what can be repaired
but I'd suggest to get a stable hardware platform and playback your
backups :(
Christian.
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