linux-ext4 - Re: Apparent serious progressive ext4 data corruption bug in 3.6.3 (and other stable branches?)

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Message-ID: <508AF3FA.4020506@redhat.com>
Date:	Fri, 26 Oct 2012 15:35:06 -0500
From:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
To:	Nix <nix@...eri.org.uk>
CC:	"Ted Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>, 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, linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Apparent serious progressive ext4 data corruption bug in 3.6.3
 (and other stable branches?)

On 10/23/12 3:57 PM, Nix wrote:
> [Bruce, Trond, I fear it may be hard for me to continue chasing this NFS
>  lockd crash as long as ext4 on 3.6.3 is hosing my filesystems like
>  this. Apologies.]

<big snip>

> The only unusual thing about the filesystems on this machine are that
> they have hardware RAID-5 (using the Areca driver), so I'm mounting with
> 'nobarrier': the full set of options for all my ext4 filesystems are:
> 
> rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,journal_checksum,journal_async_commit,nobarrier,quota,
> usrquota,grpquota,commit=30,stripe=16,data=ordered,usrquota,grpquota

Out of curiosity, when I test log replay with the journal_checksum option, I
almost always get something like:

[  999.917805] JBD2: journal transaction 84121 on dm-1-8 is corrupt.
[  999.923904] EXT4-fs (dm-1): error loading journal

after a simulated crash & log replay.

Do you see anything like that in your logs?

<big snip>

Thanks,
-Eric

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