From: exd@cad15.genrad.com (Erik X. Duus) Subject: Re: 99p3+extfs: Files disappeared miraculousely Date: 6 Feb 1993 18:39:17 GMT
In article <michaelw.727945054@mcshh.hanse.de> michaelw@mcshh.Hanse.DE (Michael Will) writes:
>I am not shure whether this is a bug or just my fault, but it happened
>shortly after a friend of my reported the same problem.
>
>He downloaded the sls-package in his directory /root/incoming, while
>doing this he added a user with adduser, then deleted it again.
>
>After some time letting the system running the files simply where not there
>anymore!
>
>He was very frustrated, phoned me up to tell me, and we had no clue why.
>
>Then after I downloaded some things, I found some files I where shure not to
>have deleted where gone too.
>
>I panicked, and downloaded the source for 0.99p4 onto a msdos-fs, and the
>compiling went fine - I am not shure whether this all had anything todo with
>the kernel, but I am wondering because of the two incidents...
>
>Anyone had any experiences of this kind?
This has happened to me as well. I had a couple of man pages disappear a
while ago, and immediately ran efsck on the partition; no problems
detected. At the time I was trying to get X running and was crashing the
server every 10 minutes, so I didn't think to blame the file system.
It seems to happen on a fairly regular basis, and is very frustrating.
2 days ago I compiled some stuff succesfully which crashed immediately.
I went to compile with the debug switch turned on; lo and behold the
math library was gone!
BTW, how stable is the newfs currently? There is no way I intend to
keep the extfs on my machine after this.
>
>Greetings, Michael Will
Regards, Erik
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