eeeek...my filesystem is turning into swiss cheese!!

[Net Llama!]

On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Andrew Mathews wrote:
> "Net Llama!" wrote:
> >
> > I've really done it this time.  I installed a version 4.1 of fileutils,
> > and it appears to have hosed the filesystem in a very bad way. BTW, this
> > box is Redhat based, using XFS.
> >
> > *Every* single file on the box now has a size of 16T (yes, terrabytes).
> > Now as wonderful as it would be to have a few petabytes of storage in a my
> > mini-ATX workstation, reality tells me that's not the case.
> >
> > Everything is working just fine, even df reports accurate results, but i
> > know something is badly broken, and i fear rebooting the box.
> >
> > Anyone have any ideas?
> >
> Since "ls" is part of the fileutils package are you sure that the files
> are hosed or is it "ls" that's  hosed? What happens if you cat /dev/null
> > /tmp/xyz ; ls -l /tmp/xyz ? Is it a 16T file?

Unfortunately, its a 16TB file.  Actually, i'm not sure that the files are
hosed, it could still be 'ls' that is hosed, and is not reporting the
correct file size.  I'm in the process of rebuilding the previous version
of fileutils.

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