Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933057AbWLSXLJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Dec 2006 18:11:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933058AbWLSXLJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Dec 2006 18:11:09 -0500 Received: from amsfep16-int.chello.nl ([62.179.120.11]:39556 "EHLO amsfep16-int.chello.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933057AbWLSXLH (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Dec 2006 18:11:07 -0500 Subject: Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3 From: Peter Zijlstra To: Andrew Morton Cc: Linus Torvalds , Nick Piggin , andrei.popa@i-neo.ro, Linux Kernel Mailing List , Hugh Dickins , Florian Weimer , Marc Haber , Martin Michlmayr In-Reply-To: <1166569582.10372.165.camel@twins> References: <1166314399.7018.6.camel@localhost> <20061217040620.91dac272.akpm@osdl.org> <1166362772.8593.2.camel@localhost> <20061217154026.219b294f.akpm@osdl.org> <1166460945.10372.84.camel@twins> <45876C65.7010301@yahoo.com.au> <45878BE8.8010700@yahoo.com.au> <4587B762.2030603@yahoo.com.au> <1166563828.10372.162.camel@twins> <20061219145818.5b36381c.akpm@osdl.org> <1166569582.10372.165.camel@twins> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 00:07:59 +0100 Message-Id: <1166569679.10372.167.camel@twins> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1345 Lines: 37 On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 00:06 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 14:58 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > Well... we'd need to see (corruption && this-not-triggering) to be sure. > > > > Peter, have you been able to trigger the corruption? > > Yes; however the mail I send describing that seems to be lost in space. > > /me quotes from the send folder: > > > The bad new is, that doesn't help either. The good news is I can > > reproduce it. > > > > What I did to achieve that: > > > > - get a sizable torrent from legaltorrents.com / or create a torrent > > yourself that is around ~600M and has multiple files. > > > > - start a tracker, and multiple seeds (I used three machines here) > > > > - pull the torrent on a fourth machine > > > > the seeding machines don't much matter of course. > > > > the fourth machine was a dual core x86-64 with an SMP kernel and > > PREEMPT, mem=256M (so that the torrent is quite a bit larger and does > > require writeout) and I used an ext3 partition with 1k blocks. PS. this was a reply to: http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/19/121 - 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/