Re: SMP, ext2, again: rm: cannot remove file: Input/output errors

From: Mike Porter (mike@UDel.Edu)
Date: Thu Feb 17 2000 - 15:42:29 EST


On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Elmer Joandi wrote:

> What a hacking-rootkitting if tar xf does errors and tar xvf doesnt
> It is either
> 1. kernel dependent behaviour hardware failure
> 2. dual celeron dependent SMP kernel failure (other reports were
> about dual celeron, too)

I have seen one occurance of this on my machine - dual Pentium IIIs.
2.3.43.

ls <file-name> would list the file.
ls -l <file-name> would generate an I/O error, as would any other
attempt to open the file.

Rebooted a day or two later (after my first occurance of seeing the
missing interrupt for /dev/hda for the first time ever - system
would not recover). fsck reported a bad/unused inode. The inode
number was around 26,000.

Mike

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