From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263440AbTJLJ5Y (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Oct 2003 05:57:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263441AbTJLJ5X (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Oct 2003 05:57:23 -0400 Received: from smtp2.libero.it ([193.70.192.52]:49311 "EHLO smtp2.libero.it") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263440AbTJLJ5W (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Oct 2003 05:57:22 -0400 Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 11:57:20 +0200 From: Ludovico Gardenghi To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: vfat corruption in 2.6.0? Message-ID: <20031012095720.GA21405@ripieno.somiere.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi. A friend of mine had the same problem with 2 different test releases (test3 and test6), and I don't know if this problem is still here as of test7. He has a quite big vfat partition (60 GB) created with mkfs.vfat; he ran a program that had to write ~5000 files summing up to 18 GB but some hour after that program started (it's a simulation tool that runs for ~20 hours on an athlon XP 2500+) his /var started to fill with log errors of "attempt to access beyond the end of the device". The files are very fragmented because they are written line by line more or less in parallel. Moreover, the partition resulted unmountable and fsck.vfat could not manage to repair it --- the only solution being running MS win's scandisk tool. After the repair some of the smaller files on the disk got lost and some part of the bigger files got corrupted. This happened twice (with test3 and test6) and the partition was completely erased and re-created between the 2 crashes. I can't tell much more than this because my friend had to erase his logs because they filled up /var. Ludovico -- #acheronte (irc.freenode.net) ICQ: 64483080 GPG ID: 07F89BB8 Jabber: garden@jabber.students.cs.unibo.it -- This is signature nr. 1249