On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 03:02:23PM +0000, J.A. de Vries wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a problem with a file which seems to not exist, but that makes
> applications like rsync, offlineimap and tar crash, because they try to read
> it
> anyway (not their fault as far as I can tell).
>
> When I try to sync my mail using offlineimap it crashes after a while with
> the following output:
> So the system tells me the file is non-existant, but it does know the full
> name
> of that same file without me telling it. I don't understand how that is
> possible, but that probably is just due to lack of knowledge on my part. The
> problem persists over reboots, though. So I presume it is not due to some form
> of caching.
>
> To be honest I don't know what to do next. I really want to backup my mail,
> but cannot because of this problem. To solve the problem I need to remove the
> file, but when I do try such I get told it isn't there. Any suggestions?
>
I see from later posts that reiserfsck worked. I used to have this
problem. I tracked it down to a problem within reiserfs where it stores
small files within the directory structure itself (as a speed-up
measure). I got tired of it and switched to JFS. JFS offered me the
following benefits:
Never any corruption even with intermittant hydro.
Fast check after power failures.
Since I never had any corruption I don't know about its fixing
of corruption. I've never had to run fsck manually.
I was able to retreive all but one file off a hard drive that
had a physical crash. Perhaps I was just lucky but it was able
to regenerate the directory structure automatically when I
mounted it.
Now that debian has support for JFS in the kernel itself, I use JFS for
all partitions.
Doug.
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