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Message-ID: <20070918163326.GT29062@vianova.fi> Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 19:33:26 +0300 From: Ville Herva <v@....fi> To: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.4.35 SMP: ext3_readdir: bad entry in directory #323888: rec_len is smaller than minimal On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 06:22:56PM +0200, you [Jan Kara] wrote: > > Sorry for the sparse details, but when you have these kind of problems on > > live servers, you tend to forget the debuggability... > Yes, I can understand that :). It's just that now it's hard to find > out what has really happened. Anyway, thanks for your report. If we are really lucky or unlucky it will happen again. Zeroed-out block just might be a kernel problem (SMP race, whatever) - random corruption would more likely be a hardware problem. There were no IO error either. But, 2.4 ext3 has been pretty extensively tested, so I don't suppose that's likely either. And judging from http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/ChangeLog-2.4.3[45] there haven't been many changes to ext3 lately either. -- v -- v@....fi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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