Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Apr 2001 22:01:20 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [patch] linux likes to kill bad inodes |
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Hi!
> > Hi! > > > > I had a temporary disk failure (played with acpi too much). What > > happened was that disk was not able to do anything for five minutes > > or so. When disk recovered, linux happily overwrote all inodes it > > could not read while disk was down with zeros -> massive disk > > corruption. > > > > Solution is not to write bad inodes back to disk. > > > > Wouldn't we rather make it so bad inodes don't get marked dirty at all?
I guess this is cheaper: we can mark inode dirty at 1000 points, but you only write it at one point.
But I'm no FS expert. Pavel -- I'm pavel@ucw.cz. "In my country we have almost anarchy and I don't care." Panos Katsaloulis describing me w.r.t. patents at discuss@linmodems.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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