From: Nanakos Chrysostomos Subject: Re: Ext4 Kernel Crash Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 14:18:02 +0200 Message-ID: <20120226121802.GA8600@dinofilaria.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: tytso@mit.edu Return-path: Received: from mail.eleftheriou.eu ([86.35.2.10]:60136 "EHLO enigma.wired-net.gr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751112Ab2BZMSP (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Feb 2012 07:18:15 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi Ted, I tried a newer kernel and for the moment there are no problems. I am testing our systems this weekend and the new week. I will let you know the results. Kind regards, Chris On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 12:26:59PM -0500, Ted Ts'o wrote: > On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 07:50:57PM +0200, Nanakos Chrysostomos wrote: > > Dear Linux Kernel Developers, > > I am writing to report a kernel or ext4 bug. > > Hi Nanakos, > > My apologies for not responding to the message that you sent to me > personally three days ago, but I was on vacation in Hawaii; the best > place to send queries about ext4 file systems is to use the > linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org mailing list. > > One thing that I would immediately suggest is to see whether you can > reproduce this bug using a modern kernel. You are currently using a > RHEL6-derived kernel (2.6.32-220.4.1.el6.x86_64). The ext4 file > system in such a kernel is quite different from what is in upstream, > and there were a large number of bugs that have been fixed in ext4 > since 2.6.32. Many of these fixes were backported into the RHEL6 > kernel, but I'm not an expert on which fixes have been backported into > RHEL6 and which haven't. (Especially since Red Hat doesn't release > broken-out patches for their RHEL kernels....) > > My understanding is that Gluster doesn't require any kernel-side > patches, so it should be OK to run Gluster on a v3.2 kernel. > Alternatively, if you are a paid customer of RHEL6, I'd suggest > sending a support request to Red Hat. > > Best regards, > > - Ted > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/