Re: fs corruption in 2.4.0-test11?

From: David Weinehall (tao@acc.umu.se)
Date: Thu Dec 21 2000 - 09:06:11 EST


On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 10:31:56AM -0300, Horst von Brand wrote:
> David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se> said:
> > On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 04:47:42PM -0800, Larry McVoy wrote:
> > > I just need a sanity check - do other pages/blocks sometimes show
> > > up in recently created files in 2.4.0-test11?
>
> > Mmmm. Yes. I think the final fixes for this went into
> > v2.4.0-test12pre5, but since there's a test13-pre3 out that needs
> > testing, go for that one directly... :^)
>
> 2.4.0-test13-pre ate /usr/src at home (i686, RH7 + updates): Again,
> files turn into directories, massive ammounts of duplicate blocks, ...
> Not as bad as 2.4.0-test11 used to be (/ survived this time ;-)

ext2, ext3 or reiserfs (or xfs or jfs or ...)

Still, this sounds bad to me. Have you reported this to Linus+Alexander
Viro? Oh, never mind, I'm CC:ing them now.

/David
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