On 10/04/2013 01:26 AM, Per Jessen wrote: > Per Jessen wrote: > >> Dave Kleikamp wrote: >> >>> On 10/03/2013 01:12 PM, Per Jessen wrote: >>>> I'm in the process of moving some data from one server to another, >>>> and have come across 146Gb in lost+found .... date-wise, they span >>>> more than 6 years. They are all called Innnnnn.RCN. >>> >>> A directory was lost at some point. With no directory, file names are >>> created by their inode number. >>> >>>> There is one or two per >>>> day, timestamp always between midnight and 0200. The server was >>>> most >>>> definitely not restarted every day, so what is this?? Between 0000 >>>> and 0200, the server receives archived logdata from multiple >>>> sources, which is presumably related. The kernel is quite old - >>>> 2.6.25.5-1.1-pae, I guess that might also have an influence? >>> >>> The timestamps aren't touched when fsck moves them to lost+found, so >>> these files would have been created at those times in some directory >>> that is now lost. It may have been since re-created by whatever >>> process populates it. Can you tell what kind of files these are by >>> their contents? >> >> Judging by one, they're lzma compressed logfiles, which is all this >> filesystem contains. Unless rsync creates directories when receiving >> data, directories aren't frequently changed at all.
Any time a file is created, deleted, or renamed, the directory is modified. > I think these 146Gb may be the contents of one entire directory, the > mail-logs of one server. Is there any reason to think the files > themselves could have ben corrupted? The couple of files I've tested > decompress fine. The files are most likely okay. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60134791&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Jfs-discussion mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jfs-discussion
