[Gllug] spontaneously unmounting filesystem

[Jonathan Dye]

Adam Bower wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 08:44:41AM -0000, Jonathan Dye wrote:

[...] disappearing files

> ext3 IIRC correctly was still listed as experimental in the
> 2.4.18 kernel,
> there was a bug which could be related to this that I think I read
> about on the ext3 mailing list.
> 
> I once saw another system exhibit similar behaviour when a project was
> approaching deadline, a workstation with a large partition of data
> (100GB+) suddenly disappeared which had a very large amount of work
> in progress on it. The user had a few terminals open which were cd'ed
> into directories on the disk which also gave nothing when typing ls,
> and then doing a cd .. and a ls also resulting in nothing. Eventually
> when I ran out of ideas of what to do with the system up I rebooted
> (of course very frightened that I was going to have to tell someone
> that lots of the data may have gone) it and mounted the disk as ext2
> ro, ext3 ro and found all of the data was there and complete, fsck
> said the disk was clean and found no errors, after that I just
> brought the system back up and everything seemed fine. 
> 
> What I did do was upgrade the machine in question to 2.4.19 and never
> saw this behaviour again.

I'll give upgrading the kernel a go then, thanks.

JD

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