linux-ext4 - Re: Apparent serious progressive ext4 data corruption bug in 3.6 (when rebooting during umount)

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Message-ID: <871ugm6cal.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix>
Date:	Thu, 25 Oct 2012 12:06:42 +0100
From:	Nix <nix@...eri.org.uk>
To:	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
Cc:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>,
	Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@...app.com>,
	Peng Tao <bergwolf@...il.com>, Trond.Myklebust@...app.com,
	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
	Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@....de>
Subject: Re: Apparent serious progressive ext4 data corruption bug in 3.6 (when rebooting during umount)

On 25 Oct 2012, Theodore Ts'o stated:
> Also, can you reproduce the problem with the nobarrier and
> journal_async_commit options *removed*?  Yes, I know you have battery
> backup, but it would be interesting to see if the problem shows up in
> the default configuration with none of the more specialist options.
> (So it would probably be good to test with journal_checksum removed as
> well.)

I'm going to spend some time after work today trying to reproduce this
in a virtual machine. If rebooting while umounting is truly all it
takes, as it seems, this should eliminate a bunch of variables and make
it a lot easier to reproduce. (Assuming Eric hasn't already done just
that, that is.)

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