From: Dave Jones Subject: Re: torrent hash failures since 3.9.0-rc1 Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 15:41:59 -0400 Message-ID: <20130311194159.GB3579@redhat.com> References: <20130311171824.GA434@x4> <20130311191753.GA439@x4> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Markus Trippelsdorf Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130311191753.GA439@x4> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 08:17:53PM +0100, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote: > On 2013.03.11 at 18:18 +0100, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote: > > I get hash failures on "completed" torrents since 3.9.0-rc1 (Linux 3.8 > > seems to be fine). What happens is that the torrents apparently complete > > successfully. After reboot however the hash check fails and there are > > missing (or corrupted) chunks. I've tested this with two different > > clients (rtorrent and aria2c) and both are affected. So I think this > > might be a filesystem issue. > > > > /dev/sda ext4 1.4T 666G 640G 51% /var > > /dev/sda on /var type ext4 (rw,noatime,data=ordered) > > > > I use ECC memory (and there is nothing in the logs). > > To reproduce this issue just do the following: > > % wget http://torrents.linuxmint.com/torrents/linuxmint-12-gnome-cd-nocodecs-64bit.iso.torrent > % rtorrent linuxmint-12-gnome-cd-nocodecs-64bit.iso.torrent > (Wait until the torrent finishes) > % sudo echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches > (Rehash the torrent (Ctrl-R)) > The torrent doesn't rehash successfully and a few hunks are > missing/corrupted and need to be downloaded again. Worked fine for me on two separate machines. Could it be a network problem perhaps ? If something is mangling the packet before it hits the disk, that would explain it. What NIC do you use ? Or maybe you could isolate it to a filesystem problem using something like fsx ? Dave