From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [Bug 9692] New: journal_data mount option causes filesystem corruption with blocksize != 4096 Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:48:52 -0800 Message-ID: <20080226134852.04ddada7.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20080105191552.ee114b6b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org" , bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org, h.judt@gmx.at To: "Theodore Ts'o" Return-path: Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.13]:52058 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1764747AbYBZVuM (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:50:12 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20080105191552.ee114b6b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sat, 5 Jan 2008 19:15:52 -0800 Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sat, 5 Jan 2008 09:52:15 -0800 (PST) bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org wrote: > > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9692 > > > > Summary: journal_data mount option causes filesystem corruption > > with blocksize != 4096 > > Product: File System > > Version: 2.5 > > KernelVersion: 2.6.23.9 > > Platform: All > > OS/Version: Linux > > Tree: Mainline > > Status: NEW > > Severity: high > > Priority: P1 > > Component: ext3 > > AssignedTo: akpm@osdl.org > > ReportedBy: h.judt@gmx.at > > > > > > Most recent kernel where this bug did not occur: - > > Older kernels have this problem too (I think I noticed this booting >= 2.6.21, > > definitely 2.6.22). > > I'm getting the feeling that we should just disable data=journal. Make it > use data=ordered mode instead. It isn't getting a lot of attention.. > As discussed today - this is the bug which makes me wonder how useful/popular journalled-data mode is.