Re: 2.6.1 + XFS wierdness

[mru@kth.se (Måns Rullgård)]

Igor <ivi@runbox.com> writes:

> Ok, as advised I'm reporting what happened to my system:
> I run Kernel 2.6.1 with XFS on a laptop, I forgot to send it to "sleep"
> and battery died, so there was unclean unmount (This is, what I
> believe was the cause),
> at some point after I restarted my system many of the files couldn't
> be executed:
> "binary file can't be executed reported", However the system was
> functional and I could boot it.
> So I hexopened some of the problematic files and found that although
> the size of the file is maintained, there was no data, every byte was
> replaced by 0, I guess it was lucking reference on a hard drive or
> maybe something else. The reason I think the root of the problem is
> filesystem + kernel because the "corrupted" files have nothing in
> common, e.g:
> /usr/bin/file
> /etc/init.d/cron
> /usr/bin/lynx
> and that only happened when I updated kernel to 2.6.1

See http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/faq.html#nulls

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