Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 21 Dec 2000 09:37:08 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 21 Dec 2000 09:36:57 -0500 Received: from kleopatra.acc.umu.se ([130.239.18.150]:25850 "EHLO kleopatra.acc.umu.se") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 21 Dec 2000 09:36:54 -0500 Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 15:06:11 +0100 From: David Weinehall To: Horst von Brand Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alexander Viro , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: fs corruption in 2.4.0-test11? Message-ID: <20001221150611.B15178@khan.acc.umu.se> In-Reply-To: <200012211331.eBLDVuc01895@pincoya.inf.utfsm.cl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <200012211331.eBLDVuc01895@pincoya.inf.utfsm.cl>; from vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl on Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 10:31:56AM -0300 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 10:31:56AM -0300, Horst von Brand wrote: > David Weinehall said: > > On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 04:47:42PM -0800, Larry McVoy wrote: > > > I just need a sanity check - do other pages/blocks sometimes show > > > up in recently created files in 2.4.0-test11? > > > Mmmm. Yes. I think the final fixes for this went into > > v2.4.0-test12pre5, but since there's a test13-pre3 out that needs > > testing, go for that one directly... :^) > > 2.4.0-test13-pre ate /usr/src at home (i686, RH7 + updates): Again, > files turn into directories, massive ammounts of duplicate blocks, ... > Not as bad as 2.4.0-test11 used to be (/ survived this time ;-) ext2, ext3 or reiserfs (or xfs or jfs or ...) Still, this sounds bad to me. Have you reported this to Linus+Alexander Viro? Oh, never mind, I'm CC:ing them now. /David _ _ // David Weinehall /> Northern lights wander \\ // Project MCA Linux hacker // Dance across the winter sky // \> http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/