Message-ID: <4665075F.1050903@sw.ru>
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 10:49:03 +0400
From: Vasily Averin <vvs@sw.ru>
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To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
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       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, devel@openvz.org,
       linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>,
       adilger@clusterfs.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH ext3/ext4] orphan list check on destroy_inode
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Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Vasily Averin wrote:
>> Customers claims to ext3-related errors, investigation showed that ext3
>> orphan list has been corrupted and have the reference to non-ext3 inode.
>> The following debug helps to understand the reasons of this issue.
> 
> Vasily, does your customer have this patch in place?
> 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org/msg00889.html
> 
> If not, perhaps it could be leading to the same error, because the inode will
> not be properly removed from the orphan inode list when it is freed, and
> could then be recycled...

We did have a several bugreports occurred on the kernels without your patch, but
latest incident (when check in ext3_destroy_inode has been triggered) has been
occurred on the kernel where your patch has been applied.

Thank you,
	Vasily Averin
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