Am Mittwoch, 9. Oktober 2002 16:09 schrieb Oleg Drokin: > Hello! > > On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 04:02:34PM +0200, Dieter N?tzel wrote: > > > prevented system from putting new content in there), but since you've > > > got other file's data in the middle of file, this is not the case. > > > > Oleg, I "see" it from time to time during kernel and DRI development (X > > server crashes), too. This times without Chris's stuff. 2.4.19-ck5 > > (latest ReiserFS patches for 2.4.19) and now with 2.5.40-ac3. > > What's "it"? Is it means what I describe, or "it" means wrong stuff in the > middle of files?
Wrong stuff in the middle (appended) _AND_ sometimes whole broken files (if the files are smaller). > > Most times "messages", "localmessages", kernel .o.*, dep files, etc. are > > broken (wrong stuff or mixed stuff). > > These are recently modified stuff. Yes. > > Latest my ".q3a/baseq3/q3key" file (DRI SMP tests) was broken (completely > > other stuff in it) even though it only should opened for reading. > > ls -la .q3a/baseq3/q3key? Sorry, I had a copy of it elsewhere and deleted it ;-( > > PS I send you a compressed copy of my "messages" file in private. > > It only confirms my version, note how whole block of zeroes > was inserted after emergency sync (perhaps during crash). "whole block of zeroes" would be fine but it isn't sometimes... Sometimes it is stuff from other (deleted?) files. When I get the "next" crash during kernel compilation I "save" some files for you. -Dieter
