Re: Still severe corruption under 2.3.24-ikd

Ingo Molnar (mingo@chiara.csoma.elte.hu)
Fri, 29 Oct 1999 11:23:49 +0200 (CEST)


On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Pavel Machek wrote:

> I'm still experiencing severe data corruption in 2.3.24-ikd.
>
> I see inodes with their block numbers overwritten by -2, I see files
> with mode of -1. Gcc 2.7.2 issue seems to be fixed in 2.3.24...
>
> Data corruption is so bad that I can not (for example) recompile
> kernel on 2.3.24-ikd system. Not by far.

i have reproduced one fs corrupter and a temporary workaround is in
2.3.24. I first suspected that the high memory patch did it, but it turned
out that unmap_underlying_metadata() hack either introduced or triggered
data/metadata corruption. (take a look at the buffer.c change) I cannot
reproduce any filesystem corruption with 2.3.24 - could you try it without
ikd?

-- mingo

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