From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 4 23:23:47 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id XAA21293 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 4 Oct 1995 23:23:47 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id XAA21286 for ; Wed, 4 Oct 1995 23:23:39 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id HAA01605; Thu, 5 Oct 1995 07:23:34 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id HAA04384; Thu, 5 Oct 1995 07:23:33 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id HAA07427; Thu, 5 Oct 1995 07:23:01 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199510050623.HAA07427@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: system crash - help! To: rdm@ic.net Date: Thu, 5 Oct 1995 07:23:00 +0100 (MET) Cc: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199510050337.XAA02570@port13.hubbard2.t.ic.net> from "Rob Misiak" at Oct 4, 95 11:37:13 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 694 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Rob Misiak wrote: > > > What do you mean "marked"... you mean "moved to lost+found"? I hope? > > Unfortunately, no. The files were in the same places that they normally were, > except (according to ls -l) they were character devices. It happened to many > random files all over the / partition. Fortunately, I kept backups and I was > able to restore the files. I've also seen this, but this was after a severs SCSI bus crash. (I've been playing with a WORM device that apparently confused the entires SCSI controller code.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)