[TriLUG] ext3 surprise

[Jon Carnes]

On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 14:57, Jeremy Portzer wrote:
> > I'm starting to wonder if something else corrupted that file in the past, 
> > and I'm only now finding it.  With ext3 you don't usually run fsck's.
> 
> Does ext3 ever move files around to limit fragmentation?  Or does that
> only happen if you run a specific defragementation tool?  Otherwise,
> yeah, it sounds like it may have been corrupted before.
> 
> --Jeremy
> 
It could be a recent process that over-wrote the information or the
inodes of the file. I've seen this before when running dev versions of
NFS that have spiraled out of control.

Jon Carnes