Re: Apparent serious progressive ext4 data corruption bug in 3.6.3(and other stable branches?)

From: Theodore Ts'o
Date: Sat Oct 27 2012 - 13:56:16 EST


On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 01:45:25PM +0100, Nix wrote:
> Ah! it's turned on by journal_async_commit. OK, that alone argues
> against use of journal_async_commit, tested or not, and I'd not have
> turned it on if I'd noticed that.
>
> (So, the combinations I'll be trying for effect on this bug are:
>
> journal_async_commit (as now)
> journal_checksum
> none

Can you also check and see whether the presence or absence of
"nobarrier" makes a difference?

Thanks,

- Ted
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