In six years of working with Linux I have not seen this happen. I have not seen any one thing or process that brought the system down. So I am really surprised.
There is no report of any kernel panic. __________________________________________ Ranga Nathan / CSG Systems Programmer - Specialist; Technical Services; BAX Global Inc. Irvine-California Tel: 714-442-7591 Fax: 714-442-2840 John Summerfied <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: Linux on 390 Port <LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU> 07/27/2005 01:52 PM Please respond to Linux on 390 Port <LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU> To LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject Re: A file corruption causing system hang (Linux guest) Ranga Nathan wrote: > We are running SuSE 9 on a guest under z/VM 5.1. I have been getting a > message from the cron daemon about a problem with the "updatedb" script. > On investigation I found that this script file was corrupted at the end. > My attempts to rsync and edit caused this guest to hang. I had to re-IPL > it many times. When I deleted this file and tried to rsync it from > another, it hung as I was typing. > > I found some file corruptions on the root file system (reiserfs). I can > not believe that a file corruption could hang Linux. I have never seen > this happen. Why on earth not? If linux can't read bits of itself, why would it not fail? -- Cheers John -- spambait [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tourist pics http://portgeographe.environmentaldisasters.cds.merseine.nu/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
