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Subject: [Bug 14354] Bad corruption with 2.6.32-rc1 and upwards
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 03:33:27 GMT
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--- Comment #176 from Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>  2009-11-04 03:33:25 ---
> Double-hrm; if it's not the transaction that was right during the power-fail,
> maybe this is a hint/clue for the other bug that claims corruption after a
> -clean- shutdown.  Probably time to go look for races, buffer re-use, etc in
> the checksumming code...?

I *hope* that is what it is.  The scarrier alternative is that we have
a race/buffer re-use or some other race that we've never noticed
because it's relatively rare enough, and if it's a block that ends up
getting overwritten by a subsequent transaction, it would be a
self-healing problem....

                        - Ted

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