linux-ext4 - Re: Oops with ext4 from 2.6.27-rc3

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Message-ID: <20080813224534.GG6142@mit.edu>
Date:	Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:45:34 -0400
From:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
To:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
Cc:	Christian Hesse <mail@...rm.de>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Oops with ext4 from 2.6.27-rc3

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 05:19:55PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> 
> I don't :), but I tried a quick reproducer anyway and couldn't hit it ...
> 
> mkfs.ext3, mount, create non-extents file
> umount, tune2fs to ext4
> mount as ext4, write to file, open file O_TRUNC
> 
> ... didn't oops for me :(
> 

In this particular case, we need to open the file for appending, write
to it, and then unlink it in order to trigger it, I think.

       	   	       	     	      	      - Ted
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