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Files missing from filesystem? (2.4.9)

DISCUSSION Mark Cuss 1 participant 1 message Aug 27, 2001 1 message not in the archive

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The most likely cause (i.e. it's happened to me) is that bdflush had

stopped

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working.
Thats the process responsible for making sure changes to files are

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comitted to disk.

Check the logs again and search for bdflush.

I looked through all the /var/log/messages files (actually all the files in /var/log) and can't spot any bdflush entries.
This does however sound like it may be the suspect.... The machine has not been down since these changes were made, so I figured that they would "eventually" make their way to disk... Perhaps I'm wrong.

Any other Ideas ? :)

Thanks,
Mark