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RE: Arista filesystem rewinding back 3 years


From: Drew Weaver <drew.weaver () thenap com>
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2025 13:24:34 +0000

William Herrin wrote:

I've seen this before with MicroSD cards in a Raspberry Pi. The card stops accepting writes but continues to report 
write success to the OS. On the Pi, this eventually shows up as seeming filesystem corruption when blocks are flushed 
and >>then reloaded to the disk cache. Upon reboot, the Pi reverts to the state it was in when the writes actually 
stopped happening.

Well, I am glad it didn't boot up using the startup-config from 2022 that would've been an actual catastrophe.

Chatting with TAC about it. Yikes.
-Drew


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