Paolo Tealdi wrote:
I will do a newfs on saturday afternoon, after doing some backups
(also on tape). After this, if the problem persists, i'll do the pass
2, 3 and 4.
In my opinion something gets damaged at filesystem level after an
energy block (date are similar). I did an fsck (more times) but the
problem persists : probably fsck doesn't recognise the problem.
By energy block I assume you mean a power cut? It's certainly
suspicious but without actually understanding what is causing the
problem, hard to be sure if there is a relation. I'm struggling to
understand how "ls" can show a date in 2003 for a file, while dump
thinks that the inode has changed since your level 0 a few days ago.
I'm no expert on the filesystem, but that's just weird. I don't see how
a power cut could have done that or what problem fsck could fix
It could be important to do debugging for this problem, but it's a
production disk (big) and i can't "play" with it too much.
Thanks a lot for your support.
One more thought off the top of my head. What does ls -lsak /home/.snap
show? I know there can be issues with snapshots in the 5 series and
having more than one snapshot can be a bad idea. I don't think that's
it because your dump -S without -L showed pretty much the same as with
-L, but just in case. If you do find any snapshots (I believe dump
would leave one called dump_snapshot or .dump_snapshot or something
obvious if it gets interrupted (by a power failure, for example) then
you can delete with rm. I don't hold out much hope but it's easier than
a dump/restore).
If no-one else replies here with bright ideas, you could also try
posting to maybe freebsd-hackers or freebsd-fs;
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/eresources.html#ERESOURCES-MAIL
Good luck. If you try the newfs, please let us know how it turns out.
--Alex
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