Working with files on HAMMER fs

[Rahul Siddharthan]

Matthias Schmidt wrote:
>* Matthew Dillon wrote:
>>
>>      If you re-extract the tar into an empty filesystem does the problem
>>      then show up again?  If so I'd like to get a hold of that tarball
>>      to reproduce the problem.
>
>Does not work.  Extracting fails:
>
># tar xfz /root/ports.tar.gz
>[...]
>ports/Mk/bsd.commands.mk: Can't create 'ports/Mk/bsd.commands.mk'
>ports/Mk/bsd.destdir.mk: Can't create 'ports/Mk/bsd.destdir.mk'
>ports/Mk/bsd.perl.mk: Can't create 'ports/Mk/bsd.perl.mk'
>tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.

Could it be a disk problem?  How well does hammer handle bad sectors,
or a failing disk?  I've seen mysterious behaviour on an ext3
filesystem that went away after I did a bad blocks scan on it.

Rahul