Re: Reiserfs-3.6.25 (2.4.21) ., instead of .., rsync Q

From: Oleg Drokin
Date: Mon Dec 29 2003 - 09:55:05 EST


Hello!

Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@xxxxxx> wrote:

GL> After running a machine for some time I've got an empty directory with
GL> ls -a /var/run/sudo/user/ showing
GL> . .,

Sounds like a single bit error to me.

GL> and
GL> ls -al /var/run/sudo/user/
GL> ls: /var/run/sudo/user/.,: No such file or directory

Sure, because only "." and ".." hash is calculated in a special way.

GL> Don't know if this would be of much help, though - I've already removed
GL> the directory (rmdir worked ok), I had to do a backup, and with that
GL> structure rsync couldn't go further.

What if you try to run memtest86 to see if you have good RAM?

Bye,
Oleg
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