On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 03:32:13PM -0500, David Gilbert wrote: > >>>>> "Julian" == Julian Elischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Julian> David Gilbert wrote: > > >> I've got a medium busy server (few thousand mail messages a day, > >> web, webmail, imap, etc) that I can fairly reliably reproduce > >> filesystem corruption by creating multiple snapshots and deleting > >> them. > >> > >> I don't think I'm up to debugging this, but I may be able to > >> provide an exercise platform. > > Julian> can you characterise the corruption? > > Sure. Typically the system will crash with an ffs panic of some > random type. When it comes back, we run non-background fsck's because > manual fsck is sometimes required. > > Corruption varies. Some stuff sometimes pops up in lost+found. Some > stuff can vanish (not 100% positive on that). But most worringly, is > that some files come back corrupted (ie berkley db files that db won't > read).
Long strings of NUL bytes? Missing data? Spam (from the same file, or from other files)? -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \'[ FreeBSD ]''''''''''\ <> [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ The Power to Serve! \ Opinions expressed are my own. \,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,\ _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
