On Friday, April 19, 2019 at 3:12:06 PM UTC, Brad Fitzpatrick wrote:
>
> This is pretty surprising that a full disk could cause this. We write to 
> an adjacent temporary file and only once it's fully written do we rename it 
> into place.
>
> But an EIO on read as shown above is also weird. What was that about? You 
> "fixed" it?
>
>
I ran SpinRite, an old disk utility, in a read only mode, and it found a 
bad sector. I'm guessing that SpinRite trying to read that sector a whole 
lot of times provoked the SSD controller to swap out the bad block for a 
spare. When I booted back into Linux, the EIO was gone.
 

> I thought we had a flag to let reindexing proceed without failing on 
> missing files, but maybe not?
>

That could be useful.

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