linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] xfstests: add disk failure simulation test

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Date:	Thu, 14 Feb 2013 08:32:17 +1100
From:	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
To:	Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@...nvz.org>
Cc:	xfs@....sgi.com, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, dchinner@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfstests: add disk failure simulation test

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 07:41:37PM +0400, Dmitry Monakhov wrote:
> BE CAREFUL!! test known to cause memory corruption for XFS
> see: https://gist.github.com/dmonakhov/4945005

Commit 9f87832 (xfs: fix shutdown hang on invalid inode during
create) might actually fix this. IIRC, it went into 3.8-rc7 so that
wouldn't have been in the kernel you were testing. Can you retest
with a more recent kernel and if it is still busted, send a bug
report to the list?

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@...morbit.com
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