background fsck can be dangerous!

[Matthias Buelow]

Niki Denev <nike_d at cytexbg.com> writes:

>Before the background fsck finished some files were unreadable,
>and they happened to be some libraries used by my mail software.
>After the fsck finished these libraries were accessible again and
>everything was normal and working, at least this is what it looked
>like to me.

I wonder how this can happen.. I thought the only thing that could
happen is that some files would get truncated to zero length?

mkb.