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Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 09:48:57 -0500
From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
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Subject: Re: XFS filesystem corruption on the arm(el) architecture
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Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net> [2008-10-17 09:15]:

>> Do you know what cachepolicy you're booted with?  If it's writeallocate,
>> you might try cachepolicy=writeback, otherwise try cachepolicy=uncached
>> (which will be horribly slow) and see if the problem goes away or not;
>> it'd be a clue.
> 
> I just tried with cachepolicy=writeback and cachepolicy=uncached but I
> get the same problem.

Oh, wow.  This sounds like a new problem then; not a cache problem, and
not an alignment problem...  hrm.  I'll try to think of something else
to try.

Thanks,
-Eric

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