From: Theodore Tso Subject: Re: [Bug 14354] Re: ext4 increased intolerance to unclean shutdown? Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 04:16:02 -0400 Message-ID: <20091030081602.GM18464@mit.edu> References: <20091016091558.GA10184@mit.edu> <20091027101534.GA27584@skywalker.linux.vnet.ibm.com> <4AEA0B71.5050805@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Parag Warudkar , "Aneesh Kumar K.V" , LKML , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org To: Eric Sandeen Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4AEA0B71.5050805@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 04:38:57PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: > > 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, since you have a relatively controllable reproduction case, have you tried reproducing Alexey's bisection results? Specifically he seemed to find that commit fe188c0e shows no problem, and commit 91ac6f43 is the first commit with problems? Having to do multiple iterations will make doing a bisection a major pain, but maybe we'll get something out of that. Other things that might be worth doing given that you have a test case would be to try reverting commit 91ac6f43, and see if that helps, and to try this patch: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=23468 Or have you tried some of these experiments already? Regards, - Ted