From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: EXT4 corruption on Linus latest tree.
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 11:32:03 -0500
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On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 11:04:46AM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
>  > Hmm, more people triggering something like that:
>  > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=136196926015305&w=2
> 
> Yeah, looks similar.  The missing files/dirs reappeared when I
> booted an older kernel, so it looks like the corruption doesn't
> hit the disk.  Fsck (1.42.5) didn't find anything either.

Thanks for the report.  I'm working to replicate and fix the problem...

       	       		    	       - Ted