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- From: Michael Smith <miff@apanix.apana.org.au>
- Subject: MiniFS pl10 _serious_ problems.
- Date: Fri, 17 Jun 1994 00:54:27 +0930 (CST)
-
- At the suggestion of a number of people (no aspersions cast) I installed
- the pl10 MinixFS, and (with serious qualms) ran fsck to upgrade
- my filesystems.
-
- Now, they're all broke 8(
-
- More details would probably help:
-
- First, my setup. I'm running 1.10juergen-megapatched, with the net030
- patches as well.
-
- The machine is a TT/8, and I am running Hushi 4.27(?) as a harddisk driver.
-
- The problems : On any partition I've written to, fsck gives me 'zone number
- out of range in inode xxxxx', 'Inode xxxxx contains too many zones', and
- thousands of zone and inode bitmap errors.
-
- I've also had console spammage as a result of trying to read outside the
- partition. (large numbers of error messages)
-
- I can't delete the contents of /lost+found, and on at least one drive it
- contains a subdirectory.
-
- I have noticed that there is no update process running - I assume this is
- because addroottimeout() exists and is being used...
-
- I made a tar backup of one filesystem onto another in an attempt to save
- some data (my tape unit has recently failed me again 8( ), and now
- this filesystem is also damaged (if I had any brains I would have backed
- up onto a TOS filesystem so I could minit and retry), and now this filesystem
- is also corrupt. tar tvvf on the backup file gives me some entries, then
- a console message :
-
- pid 20 (tar): Minixfs Zone Range Error Drive 1 Zone 218776392 Count 1
- ............. Minixfs: Bad Filesystem, Repair with fsck
- ............. Drive: Attempted access outside partition
-
- This is all a bit distressing really - I have been really happy with the
- performance of the MinixFS, and I can only hope this is something
- that can be cured by backing up and re-minitting.
-
- Any ideas?
-
- --
- # mike smith : miff@apanix.apana.org.au - Silicon grease monkey #
- # "The question 'why are the fundamental laws of nature mathematical' #
- # then invites the trivial response 'because we define as fundamental #
- # those laws which are mathematical'". Paul Davies, _The_Mind_of_God_. #
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