On Wed, 03 Feb 2016 06:30:13 -0700 "Keith Medcalf" <kmedcalf at dessus.com> wrote:
> > Is this on windows? Any errors in the Eventlogs to the tune "Oooopsie -- > accidentally threw away your data instead of writing it to disk"? Windows > does this quite commonly under some circumstances. MicroSoft created the bug > in NT 4 and has been unable to locate or fix it since -- though there is no > problem producing an error message about 50% of the time it happens. No, that's Ubuntu Trusty 32 bits on Ext4. For an anecdote, I personally never had file system issues with Windows, the only few cases I had was with Ubuntu (especially with Btrfs which I left for this reason). > [?] > > > > Coincidence. I just had a funny incident; may be it's related. > > > > I just modified a program so that it create fours triggers in a database. > > I ran the program, then got an error from APSW (the program uses Python) > > complaining about an I/O or disk error. This frightened me a bit, but I > > though this may be due to SQLiteBrowser opened on the same DB, which I > > forget to close and I closed just after I started the program, which was > > subject to the I/O issue. I open the DB and can see only two of the four > > triggers, two missing. So I delete the DB and regenerate it three times, > > without error messages, but still two triggers missing. That's only at the > > fourth repetition the four triggers was all there. > > > > The SMART data indicates zero reallocated sectors. > > > > In the SMART utility, I noticed there is an hardware cache, which I > > disabled, in case of and thinking about ?lying devices? I remembered from > > this message. > > > > This is frightening to me, as I got an error message the first time only, > > but not the other times while something wrong seems to have happened too. > > Also, I could notice something was missing in the DB (even when generated > > without an error notification), because it was about something I was > > precisely looking at, at that moment; if it had been about some rows > > missing in any table, I would have not noticed it. > > > > Hardware failure? OS failure? Software failure? Can't tell for sure?? -- Yannick Duch?ne
