Subject: Re: Disappearing files.....
From: Frank Joerdens (frank@joerdens.de)
Date: Thu Nov 30 2000 - 03:52:25 EST
lists-mail wrote:
>
> I not using Quark.
>
> I'm currently pulling down the 2000-netatalk-admins.mail to search through. I
> have been seeing a strange problem for the last two months and trying to pin
> it down.
>
> Periodicly I will hear a complaint from a developer that they have lost
> permissions on a mounted directory. I have them unmount the volume and remount
> it, the problem disappears. Within a few hours, files-entire directories will
> disappear. As in gone, without a trace, vamoosed.
Did you fsck the volumes, as in e2fsck -f -v /dev/[your disk] after
unmounting them, and were they without errors? Is this SCSI or IDE? I
just had a maybe related issue with a couple new externeal 50 G SCSI
drives I stuck into my netatalk/samba fileserver which up until then had
only had IDE devices in it, one of which was a CDRW IDE device for which
you have to use SCSI-IDE emulation under Linux. This did apparently not
work together with the Tekram SCSI controller driver that I had
installed. I had corrupted filesystems and vanishing data after about a
couple of days of smooth operation with the new drives until I removed
the CDRW from the computer and the SCSI-IDE stuff from the kernel. Now
it's been working fine for about 3 weeks.
Hope it helps,
Frank
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