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Subject: [Bug 14354] Bad corruption with 2.6.32-rc1 and upwards
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:39:07 GMT
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--- Comment #145 from Eric Sandeen 2009-10-29 21:39:06 ---
Parag Warudkar wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 6:15 AM, Aneesh Kumar K.V
> wrote:
>> Can you try this patch ?
>>
>> commit a8836b1d6f92273e001012c7705ae8f4c3d5fb65
>> Author: Aneesh Kumar K.V
>> Date: Tue Oct 27 15:36:38 2009 +0530
>>
>> ext4: discard preallocation during truncate
>>
>> We need to make sure when we drop and reacquire the inode's
>> i_data_sem we discard the inode preallocation. Otherwise we
>> could have blocks marked as free in bitmap but still belonging
>> to prealloc space.
>
> Just wanted to let you know that I have applied this patch and one
> unclean shutdown later it seems to have not given me any trouble.
>
> I will continue testing it - hopefully I won't have to reformat this
> time ( every time I tested previously I ended up having weird issues
> that I decided to get rid of by reformatting /).
I've been running my testcase, and I just hit the usual corruption with
this patch in place after 8 iterations, I'm afraid.
-Eric
> Parag
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