From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 11 Sep 2001 14:55:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 11 Sep 2001 14:55:37 -0400 Received: from mail.cdlsystems.com ([207.228.116.20]:23567 "EHLO cdlsystems.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 11 Sep 2001 14:55:28 -0400 Message-ID: <006a01c13af3$5b917d90$160e10ac@hades> From: "Mark Cuss" To: Subject: Lost files on Filesystem - 2.4.9 Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 12:55:42 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 X-Return-Path: mcuss@cdlsystems.com X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Reply-To: mcuss@cdlsystems.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello! I posted a message regarding this problem about a month or so ago, and am now seeing it more frequently. On two different machines (one being a single processor "standard" PC running 2.4.3, and the other being our server: A dual SMP 1 GHz with 4 SCSI disks, paired into 2 software striping RAIDs (RAID 0) ). The problem is that changes that people make to the filesystem don't seem to "stick". An example: A user makes changes and his/her files with their editor. The backup runs that night and captures the changes (backups are run on a Windows 2000 Server running Backup Exec with a Unix Backup Agent installed on the Linux server). When the user returns the next day, the files have reverted to a previous state. Looking at the backup shows that the changes *were* present on the filesystem, but have since vanished. I have checked all the kernel logs and found nothing. The machine did not go down on either occasion. A previous poster mentioned problems with bdflush not running - I have checked and it does seem to be running OK. If anyone would like more information about the machines' configuration please let me know. Thanks in advance for your help, Mark Mark Cuss, B. Sc. Junior Real Time Systems Analyst CDL Systems Ltd 3553 - 31 Street NW Calgary, Alberta (403) 289-1733 ext 226 mcuss@cdlsystems.com