Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261413AbTHZR6o (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Aug 2003 13:58:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261713AbTHZR6o (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Aug 2003 13:58:44 -0400 Received: from tolkor.sgi.com ([198.149.18.6]:51929 "EHLO tolkor.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261413AbTHZR5j (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Aug 2003 13:57:39 -0400 Subject: Re: [BUG] 2.6.0-test4-mm1: NFS+XFS=data corruption From: Steve Lord To: Andrew Morton Cc: suparna@in.ibm.com, barryn@pobox.com, Linux Kernel , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com In-Reply-To: <20030826104458.448d1eea.akpm@osdl.org> References: <20030824171318.4acf1182.akpm@osdl.org> <20030825193717.GC3562@ip68-4-255-84.oc.oc.cox.net> <20030825124543.413187a5.akpm@osdl.org> <1061852050.25892.195.camel@jen.americas.sgi.com> <20030826031412.72785b15.akpm@osdl.org> <20030826110111.GA4750@in.ibm.com> <20030826104458.448d1eea.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Message-Id: <1061920640.25889.1404.camel@jen.americas.sgi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.4 Date: 26 Aug 2003 12:57:21 -0500 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 942 Lines: 27 On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 12:44, Andrew Morton wrote: > Suparna Bhattacharya wrote: > > > > > Binary searching reveals that the offending patch is > > > O_SYNC-speedup-nolock-fix.patch > > > > > > > I'm not sure if this would help here, but there is > > one bug which I just spotted which would affect writev from > > XFS. I wasn't passing the nr_segs down properly. > > That fixes it, thanks. Does rpm use readv/writev though? Or does the nfs server? not sure how this change would affect the original problem report. Steve -- Steve Lord voice: +1-651-683-3511 Principal Engineer, Filesystem Software email: lord@sgi.com - 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/