From: Valerie Clement Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix file system corruption [ was Re: mballoc errors ] Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:46:01 +0200 Message-ID: <47F20459.1010801@bull.net> References: <47EAC302.5040109@redhat.com> <47ECFAC7.3050404@bull.net> <20080331065802.GA19456@skywalker> <47F0FBFE.7060404@bull.net> <20080331201819.GA30646@skywalker> <20080331205030.GB30646@skywalker> <47F1F49A.7020102@bull.net> <20080401090149.GB9121@skywalker> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-ext4 To: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" Return-path: Received: from ecfrec.frec.bull.fr ([129.183.4.8]:45714 "EHLO ecfrec.frec.bull.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756110AbYDAJpg (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Apr 2008 05:45:36 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20080401090149.GB9121@skywalker> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: > Regarding the test case that you have i am not yet sure what is causing > the file system corruption. It cannot be ext4_ext_zeroout or > ext4_ext_convert_to_initialized because they are used only when we are > writing to falloc area and you are not preallocating anything in your > test. Did you make sure you are not using delalloc ? All my tests are > run with stable branch. Oh I'm sorry, I was not enough precise in my previous mails. When I disable the delalloc feature, I don't reproduce the problem. So, there is another problem. I will look into the delalloc code. Valerie