Subject: Re: Feb. 29 kernel
To: Jonathan O'Brien <obrien@phoenix.sfsu.edu>
From: Iain Hibbert <plunky@skate.demon.co.uk>
List: port-sparc
Date: 03/02/1996 21:10:24
On Sat, 2 Mar 1996, Jonathan O'Brien wrote:

> The other interesting new event is I now have a disappearing
> file problem. On sd1, whenever I add or remove files, all the other
> files in that directory disappear. If I unmount the drive, fsck, and
> remount, no errors are reported by fsck, and the files are back. This
> does not seem to happen on sd0. I know this drive works fine, or at
> least I think I know. In 1.1 I moved around a large amount of data on
> the drive without failures on a nightly basis.

dingdingdingdingding!

I get this, you don't even have to fsck to get the files back - just 
umount/mount will do it.  I'm not too sure, but I think there were some
occaisions where the files would come back of their own accord without
the umount/mount being done.

have you tried a full boot, or are you still in single-user?

actually, I'm glad somebody else has the same problem as me, even though its
not good for you :) - I was getting worried that my hardware (SS1 clone) was
broken.  I don't know what to do to fix it though. 

]ain