Re: Major XFS problems...

From: Nathan Scott
Date: Wed Sep 08 2004 - 18:47:01 EST


Hi Jakob,

On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 01:22:11AM +0200, Jakob Oestergaard wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 07:40:47AM +1000, Nathan Scott wrote:
> > > ...
> > > trivial-to-trigger bugs that crash the system and have simple fixes,
> > > have not been fixed in current mainline kernels.
> >
> > If you have trivial-to-trigger bugs (or other bugs) then please let
> > the folks at linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx know all the details (test cases,
> > etc, are quite useful).
>
> They've known for 7 months (bug 309 in your bugzilla), but the problem
> is still trivially triggered in 2.6.8.1.
>

OK, so could you add the details on how you're managing to hit it
into that bug?... when you say "trivially" - does that mean you
have a recipe that is guaranteed to quickly hit it? A reproducible
test case would be extremely useful in tracking this down.

thanks.

--
Nathan
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