Re: [reiserfs-dev] 2.5.4-pre1: zero-filled files reiserfs

[Alex Riesen]

On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 08:01:24PM +0300, Oleg Drokin wrote:
> Hello!
> 
>    What kind of corruption? Can we look at corrupted file if there is something
>    unusual?
>    What Linux Distribution do you run?
i have my own system (but with sysVinit), and am somewhat sure about unmounts.

>    You can check cleanness by looking into kernel messages.
>    If there is "replaying journal" message - umount was not clean.
I've had the "replaying journal" after "machine check exception".
But after this crash the filesystem was perfect. The zerofiles was before...

> 
> Bye,
>     Oleg
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 05:55:54PM +0100, Luigi Genoni wrote:
> > Sorry but I got a corrupted file also with 2.5.4. I could see it after the
> > reboot to 2.4.17. It was /etc/exports and it was OK since i edited it
> > running 2.5.4, and It was readable by exportfs, so it corrupted at reboot.
> > 
> > The reboot was clean, of course. Maybe wrong umount?

-alex