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Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:23:01 -0400 From: Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu> To: Shawn Starr <shawn.starr@...ers.com> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6.32-rc4] + EXT4 corruption On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:07:49PM -0400, Shawn Starr wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I somehow managed to corrupt some of my filesystem. > > What I did was this: > > in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf (Kubuntu) > > I added: > > install snd-aloop /sbin/modprobe snd-aloop > > Saved it, then ran, modprobe snd-aloop, the system started spawning > many copies of modprobe, then machine started going though a swap > storm, could not reboot safely, hit power button on laptop. When the > system came back up, EXT4 greeted me with severe errors on some > opened files. It did repair filesystem however. It corrupted some > configuration files that were open at the time of the shutdown. > > I'm guessing no matter how much you attempt to replay a journal you > still can get corruption such as this? You shouldn't get any file system corruption after replaying a journal. I'm trying to get an easily reproducible test case for this. Can you give me more information about where your root filesystem is located. Is it using LVM? dm-crypt? Can you reliably reproducible the file system corruption? - Ted -- 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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