Anyone seen any directories vanish in Digital Unix 4.0?
I was doing a compile over the network and all of the
sudden I started getting indications that the directory
I was working in had disappeared. My first theory was
that someone on the server had deleted it, but....
I logged back into the server and typed
woodfin% ls -ld textutils-1.19
drwxrwxr-x 8 brock hacks 8192 Sep 12 17:02 textutils-1.19
and there was my directory. However, when I tried to list its contents
(including . and ..) I got
woodfin% ls -la textutils-1.19
total 8
drwxrwxr-x 8 brock hacks 8192 Sep 12 17:02
which seemed rather odd as I should at least get . and ..
I then did a couple of od's and got
woodfin% od -x textutils-1.19
0000000 baff 0019 1400 0100 2e00 0000 ba00 0019
0000020 1500 0080 0200 0000 1400 0200 2e00 002e
0000040 0200 0000 0100 0080 c200 0019 1c00 0b00
....
and
woodfin% od -x textutils-1.19
0000000 0019baff 01001400 00002e00 0019ba00
0000020 00801500 00000200 02001400 002e2e00
0000040 00000200 00800100 0019c200 0b001c00
Hmmmm... That 19baff looks a tad out of place.
Now the inode number of the directory is 6586
woodfin% ls -i /src/textutils-1.19
6586
and 6586 is 19ba in base 16. A showxfile results in
woodfin% showfile -x textutils-1.19
Id Vol PgSz Pages XtntType Segs SegSz Log Perf File
19ba.8015 1 16 1 simple ** ** ftx 100% textutils-1.19
So how did that extra 'ff' get stuck at the end of the 19ba?
I also did a uerf to look for hardware problems and didn't see
anything there. Anyone got any ideas for recovering this?
Received on Fri Sep 13 1996 - 00:21:42 NZST