Re: vfat corruption in 2.6.0?

From: OGAWA Hirofumi
Date: Sun Oct 12 2003 - 12:18:48 EST


Ludovico Gardenghi <garden@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> He has a quite big vfat partition (60 GB) created with mkfs.vfat; he
> ran a program that had to write ~5000 files summing up to 18 GB but
> some hour after that program started (it's a simulation tool that
> runs for ~20 hours on an athlon XP 2500+) his /var started to fill with
> log errors of "attempt to access beyond the end of the device".
> The files are very fragmented because they are written line by line
> more or less in parallel.

Can I get your program or how can I make it reproduce? Any hint?

[...]

> I can't tell much more than this because my friend had to erase his logs
> because they filled up /var.

If it happen next time, please send the dmesg and .config.
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OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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