Re: 2.6.22-rc1 killed my ext3 filesystem cleanly unmounted

From: Jesper Juhl
Date: Fri May 18 2007 - 10:20:52 EST


On 18/05/07, Martin Mokrejs <mmokrejs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,
I just tried the 2.6.22-r1 candidate to test whether some bug I have
hit in the past still exists. I did use 2.6.20.6 so far. So, I have
cleanly rebooted to use the new kernel, after the machine came up I
tried to mess with the bug, and had to reboot again to play with kernel
commandline parameters. Unfortunately, on the next reboot fsck was
schedules on my filesystem after 38 clean mounts. :( And the problem
started. The fsck found some unused inodes, but probably did not know
where do they belong to, but it deleted them automagically. Finally, the
fsck died because it cannot fine some '..' entry.


How do you know that the corruption was caused by 2.6.21-rc1 ?
Isn't it possible that the corruption was created by an earlier
kernel, but only detected when a forced fsck was run - which just
happened to be while you were running 2.6.21-rc1 ...

My point is that, as far as I can see, there's nothing tying
2.6.21-rc1 specifically to this corruption... or?

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