Hi! > > These seems to be different, at least it newer occured so often to me. Now > > installing debian packages often fails because it cannot remove temporary > > files, the filesystem worked reasonably good before. > > > > The usecase is to unpack archive with a lot rather small files somewhere deeper > > to the filesystem tree. Eg. installing gtk2-devel failed miserably when trying > > to move all the header files from *.h.dpkg-new to *.h, this works rather good > > with old driver. > > Well, I remember opkg crashes while installing emacs (many small files) > and file system corruption as well. Both with kernel 2.6.26. > The main difference is that now it's 100% reproducible and I've never seen corruption bad enough so I could not delete files without doing fsck first. Here is pseudo output from fsck on ext3 filesystem after these problems appeared: Pass 2: Bunch of these: Invalid HTREE directory inode $NUMBER $PATH/$FILE Clear HTree index<y>? and these: Problem in HTree directory inode $NUMBER: block #$NR has bad max hash Pass 3: Bunch of: Entry '$FILE in $PATH ($NUMBER) has a non-unique filename. Rename to $FILE~0<y>? Happily the files/directories affected was only the recently written from the kernel from marex tree. I haven't seen file content to be corrupted (that doesn't mean there weren't any corruptions) but it seems they are not so likely as directory tree corruption. -- metan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
