linux-kernel - Re: ext4 corruptions

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Date:	Sat, 10 Oct 2009 09:29:44 +0200
From:	Alexey Fisher <bug-track@...her-privat.net>
To:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
Cc:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>,
	Alexey Fisher <bug-track@...her-privat.net>,
	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

Am Freitag, den 09.10.2009, 17:03 -0500 schrieb Eric Sandeen:
> Jiri Kosina wrote:
> > [ 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?
> > 
> 
> Not sure if this is the same as
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14354 but it's similarly
> lacking in useful info ;)
> 
> Please provide the fsck output, any kernel messages, etc ...
> 
> -Eric

Thank you for the tip. These systems i need for testing graphic
regressions, so i'll try reproduce it on virtual system.

Alexey

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