Re: Mild filesystem corruption on ext4 (no journal)

From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
Date: Sat Jun 06 2009 - 00:17:49 EST


On Fri, 05 Jun 2009, Alan Jenkins wrote:
> Not quite. Ted says it's already reported as
>
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13292
>
> It includes an strace log which implicates the use of both mmap() and
> write() on the same file. Sounds scary :-).

Run Cyrus-IMAPd on that. It will cause the entire house to come down if
you have any sort of misbehaviour when userspace is doing extremely
annoying things. Cyrus-imapd is the mmap() test from hell.

--
"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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