linux-ext4 - Re: Strange disk failure...could ext4 be the culprit?

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Message-ID: <20090713121225.GA25711@mit.edu>
Date:	Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:12:25 -0400
From:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
To:	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Evan King <f11n1@....ca>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Strange disk failure...could ext4 be the culprit?

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 11:05:20AM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> > So my questions are these:
> > 
> >  - How likely is it that some arcane bug in ext4 is responsible for the failure?
> 
> Can you check whether your kernel have this patch
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=2ec0ae3acec47f628179ee95fe2c4da01b5e9fc4

And did you have multiple CPU's on the system which suffered the
problem?  (A requirement for this to have been the problem).

	     		     	     	       	   - Ted
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