linux-kernel - Re: ext4 corruptions

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Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.2.00.0910092351140.12171@twin.jikos.cz>
Date:	Fri, 9 Oct 2009 23:53:24 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
To:	Alexey Fisher <bug-track@...her-privat.net>
Cc:	Kernel Testers List <kernel-testers@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
	Andreas Dilger <adilger@....com>
Subject: Re: ext4 corruptions


[ adding some CCs so that this doesn't get lost in the lkml wilderness ]

On Fri, 9 Oct 2009, Alexey Fisher wrote:

> I have really bad ext4 corruptions, i needed to reinstall 3 of my test
> systems.
> The symptoms:
> is use karmic beta for this with ubuntu supplied kernel 2.6.31 ... after
> testing 2.6.32-rc[1-3] and booting again to 2.6.31 fsck will find some
> bad things and will try to fix it. After this action is the system
> unusable.

Does this happen also when you switch from vanilla 2.6.32-rcX to vanilla 
2.6.31, or only from vanilla 2.6.32-rcX to "Ubuntu 2.6.31"?

> Do any one had same problem? The is no sans to bisect it, after some
> jumps between 2.6.31 and 2.6.32 the system will be broken.  Is it kernel
> or fsck problem?

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.

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