I recovered a partition broken by this. It did not have any surface problems. It seems that only couple of files were broken, even though it's hard to know without comparing to backups. However, it did take a while to ddrescue and e2fsck a big disk... E2fsck from live cd fixed the disk, even though fsck did not work in the busybox shell earlier.
Kernel seems to have other ext3 problems too: bug #109177 [Feisty] Kernel crashes in ext3 dx_probe, "BUG at fs/ext3/namei.c:384!".(+3 duplicates). More similar bug reports: Bug #69430 ext3 filesystem corruption? Similar, but using RAID: Bug #100126 Data corruption with ext3 in striped logical volume A similar bug is mentioned in Linux Kernel Mailing List: http://marc.info/?t=116550778700006&r=1&w=2 Linus 2006-12-28: "And I have a test-program that shows the corruption _much_ easier (at least according to my own testing, and that of several reporters that back me up), and that seems to show the corruption going way way back (ie going back to Linux-2.6.5 at least, according to one tester)." "So it just got a lot _easier_ to trigger in 2.6.19, but it's not a new bug." http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=116733254829725&w=2 Re: strange ext3 corruption problem on 2.6.x http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0403.1/1480.html Gentoo-hardened: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3 http://osdir.com/ml/gentoo.hardened/2007-01/msg00066.html -- ext3 partitions are getting corrupt more often than they should https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/53102 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
