Re: Update on filesystem fiasco

I figured out the issue. I made the mistake of accidently triggering
devfsd to be loaded by the kernel when compiling which caused devfsd
to be running with the 2.6.9 kernel. This caused massive filesystem
corruptions.

I fixed the issue by recompiling the kernel and following the Handbook
section on udev. I have been going for 2 days without a filesystem
corruption after doing tests that failed every time before: deleteing
massive amounts of files, emerging large pkgs like Xorg, etc.

Thanks for the respone!

Ben Ricker


On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 14:32:29 -0500, David Bélanger <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 11:27:01PM -0600, Flaffer wrote:
> > An example of one of the msgs from fsck run off of the 2004.3 boot CD:
> >
> > File..(inode #84176, mod time Thu Mar  4 17:45:37 2004)
> >   has 2 duplicate block(s), shared with 300 file(s).
> >
> 
> > It froze the machine. Looks like I need to re-format it. Any hints on
> > what impact losing /var would have?
> >
> 
> Hi,
> 
> The portage database of package installed is on /var.  You might want to
> check the Gentoo forums for hints on how rebuilding it but I guess it
> would be rebuild as packages gets re-installed/updated.
> 
> If you have databases/web servers etc., I think some store their data in
> /var.
> 
> David
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