Re: Major problems

[Cameron Simpson <cs zip com au>]

On 20:21 20 Jan 2002, Skylar Thompson <skylar starfleet attglobal net> wrote:
| On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 09:37:44PM +0000, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
| > There's not enough information here for us to have any hope of
| > diagnosing it accurately.  What sort of IO errors were you getting?
| > -EIO errors returned to the application, or IO errors from device
| > drivers in the kernel console?
| 
| No, nothing like that. Whenever I tried accessing an affected file, I would
| get something like this:
| 
| foo: Input/output error.
| 
| I never got errors of any kind to the console, just to stderr. This is why
| I suspect it might be a filesystem problem, rather than a physical disk
| problem. 

Ok, what does:

	strace cat foo

say?
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