Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 23 Jul 1999 23:38:44 +0200 | From | Frank van Maarseveen <> | Subject | unusual ext2 FS corruption -- for statistics |
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It might be worthwhile to try to recreate the conditions leading to the FS corruption. The system in question is almost always without activity and the suspect kernel is still present in /boot. I could try to repeat the procedure of installing a new kernel and rebooting which appearently triggered something with a bad smell.
The idea is that installing a new kernel might be a major event for an old 16Meg otherwise quiet system. Something must have triggered the whole thing. Disk and swap are relatively large for this system, all eating up kernel memory.
Also, in the past there was one other 2.2.6-ac3 system with a hopeless looking FS corruption -- we did a reinstall becasue that was the easy way out and didn't require much thinking. We have about 40 boxes for software development -- half of them still running 2.2.6-ac3. So, FS corruptions are still very unusual events here.
From now on I will carefully watch how these systems behave and try to preserve some more information.
-- Frank
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