linux-ext4 - [Bug 201685] ext4 file system corruption

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Date:   Sun, 02 Dec 2018 01:25:59 +0000
From:   bugzilla-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org
To:     linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [Bug 201685] ext4 file system corruption

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201685

--- Comment #125 from Bart Van Assche (bvanassche@....org) ---
(In reply to James Courtier-Dutton from comment #118)
> How about people who are seeing this problem, do a recursive sha1sum -b of
> every file on the disk while in a known good state, and then do a sha1sum -c
> of every file on the disk to see which ones got corrupted.
> This might help when doing git bisect and checking that we are back to a
> known good file system, and in cases like comment #116, item 2.

That could take a lot of CPU time. On my system git status told me that about
ten source files had disappeared from the kernel tree that I definitely had not
deleted myself. In other words, git can be used to detect filesystem
corruption.

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