On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Karel van Houten wrote: > The setup: > Root FS on /dev/sda1, /local on /dev/sdb3, and some NFS mounted systems. > Kernel 2.4.2 (March 30 CVS). > > Doing this: > I mke2fs-ed the sdb3 partition, mounted it at /local, and copied > a tree from an NFS filesystem to /local. No other activity on the system. > I used tar | (cd;tar) for the copy. > > What happened: > I tried to 'su' in another window on the machine, and it responded > with a segfault. Several other programs reacted with segfaults or > bus errors. > > I stopped the copy, synced, and fsck-ed (-n) the local partitions. > No problems on the /local partition, but the root was badly corrupted. > Hey! That's strange, I didn't do anything on that partition! You did. At the time when you opened your other terminal and typed su you were reading and writing to the partition. I have observed this behaviour too. So in fact you're still hitting the same problem - but it's very aggressive on your side. Bye, Klaus -- Full Name : Klaus Naumann | (http://www.mgnet.de/) (Germany) Nickname : Spock | Org.: Mad Guys Network Phone / FAX : ++49/177/7862964 | E-Mail: (spock@mgnet.de) PGP Key : www.mgnet.de/keys/key_spock.txt
