linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.22-rc1 killed my ext3 filesystem cleanly unmounted

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Message-ID: <9a8748490705180720u3baf9785l910581a2a76a6eb@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 18 May 2007 16:20:39 +0200
From:	"Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@...il.com>
To:	"Martin Mokrejs" <mmokrejs@...osome.natur.cuni.cz>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, ext3-users@...hat.com
Subject: Re: 2.6.22-rc1 killed my ext3 filesystem cleanly unmounted

On 18/05/07, Martin Mokrejs <mmokrejs@...osome.natur.cuni.cz> wrote:
> Hi,
>   I just tried the 2.6.22-r1 candidate to test whether some bug I have
> hit in the past still exists. I did use 2.6.20.6 so far. So, I have
> cleanly rebooted to use the new kernel, after the machine came up I
> tried to mess with the bug, and had to reboot again to play with kernel
> commandline parameters. Unfortunately, on the next reboot fsck was
> schedules on my filesystem after 38 clean mounts. :( And the problem
> started. The fsck found some unused inodes, but probably did not know
> where do they belong to, but it deleted them automagically. Finally, the
> fsck died because it cannot fine some '..' entry.
>

How do you know that the corruption was caused by 2.6.21-rc1 ?
Isn't it possible that the corruption was created by an earlier
kernel, but only detected when a forced fsck was run - which just
happened to be while you were running 2.6.21-rc1 ...

My point is that, as far as I can see, there's nothing tying
2.6.21-rc1 specifically to this corruption... or?

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