linux-ext4 - Re: data=journal busted

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Message-Id: <20070216145022.12e86c7d.randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Date:	Fri, 16 Feb 2007 14:50:22 -0800
From:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	"linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org" <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: data=journal busted

On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 20:44:45 -0800 Andrew Morton wrote:

> 
> I have a report from a google person who just did some basic
> power-it-off-during-a-write testing on 2.6.20's ext3.  ordered-data is OK,
> but data=journal came back with crap in the file data.
> 
> Is anyone doing any formal recovery stress-testing?
> 
> I suspect we should resurrect and formalise my old
> make-the-disk-stop-accepting-writes-when-a-timer-goes-off thing.  It was
> very useful for stress-testing recovery.

Where is your make-troubles patch, please sir?

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