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Message-ID: <20091013022301.GC2606@mit.edu>
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


					
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