linux-kernel - Re: Problems with file systems created on 2.6.18.x

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0611131027240.26222@yvahk01.tjqt.qr>
Date:	Mon, 13 Nov 2006 10:29:01 +0100 (MET)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
To:	"lkml-2006i-ticket@...core.pl" <lkml-2006i-ticket@...core.pl>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Problems with file systems created on 2.6.18.x



On Nov 13 2006 08:24, lkml-2006i-ticket@...core.pl wrote:
>Hello, on two different boxes with 2.6.18.x kernels I created two file
>systems (ReiserFS and JFS). Both failed totally after about 1-2 days of
>using them.

The disk may have gone bad. (Unlikely, though)

>Dmesg reported corruption errors/warnings. When I unmounted and tried to
>remount - mound was unable to find superblocks.
>
>Before both failures I was playing with swap (swapoff -a swapon -a), I
>use encripted swap.
>
>So, perhaps there is a bug connected to some of the following aspects:
>- using newly or recently created file system (bug in code that is used
>to grow a short, "young" tree)
>- problems with swap / encrypted swap
>
>I saved image of 100 mb of the beginning of reiserfs partition after it
>failed,  I can sent it (or part of it) if anyone wants to investigate.
>
>Since I use grsecurity patch -

Recently there seem to be quite a few corruption reports involving 
setups with grsecurity.

If you can reproduce the problem with gr, see if you can reproduce it 
without gr.


	-`J'
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