Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 24 Feb 2001 15:51:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 24 Feb 2001 15:51:04 -0500 Received: from router-100M.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.17]:30468 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 24 Feb 2001 15:50:57 -0500 Subject: Re: reiserfs: still problems with tail conversion To: ken@kenmoffat.uklinux.net (Ken Moffat) Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 20:53:15 +0000 (GMT) Cc: J.A.K.Mouw@ITS.TUDelft.NL (Erik Mouw), mason@suse.com (Chris Mason), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (Linux kernel mailing list) In-Reply-To: from "Ken Moffat" at Feb 24, 2001 07:27:02 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > 32Mb. The test results vary depending on what else is on the partition, > but in each case the last file affected is 01017 and there are sequences > of previous_number+4, for up to 8 files (but next file after this might be > previous+7 or previous +15, or sporadic). From other problems I've seen on > the list, maybe I need more memory to run reiserfs ? No. Reiserfs cannot go around corrupting files regardless of the amount of memory you have. What is however quite possible is that there is a race condition on reiserfs (or in the VFS) that is triggered when you are paging and programs are thus sleeping on buffer and memory allocations - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/