From: Gary Hawco <ghawco@cox.net>
Subject: delalloc filesystem corruption
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:54:17
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Ted,

Thanks for your quick reply.  With the newest rc8-based snapshots I am no
longer getting segfaults, unless you wanted me to roll back to the
rc6-based snapshots to reproduce the segfaults.

Per your latest request I disabled delalloc, and voila, no more data
corruption! Then I enabled delalloc and disabled mballoc and file
corruption to /lib/rc/init.d/nettree returned. So delalloc is the culprit.

I hope this will help figure this out.

Thanks again,
Gary