linux-kernel - Re: zaurus pata_pcmcia corrupted filesystem

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Message-ID: <1281795351.15157.3.camel@utx.lan>
Date:	Sat, 14 Aug 2010 16:15:51 +0200
From:	Stanislav Brabec <utx@...guin.cz>
To:	Cyril Hrubis <metan@....cz>
Cc:	Kristoffer Ericson <kristoffer.ericson@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ide@...r.kernel.org,
	Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@...il.com>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Dominik Brodowski <linux@...inikbrodowski.net>,
	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com>, pavel@....cz,
	rpurdie@...ys.net, lenz@...wisc.edu, arminlitzel@....de,
	thommycheck@...il.com, dbaryshkov@...il.com, omegamoon@...il.com,
	eric.y.miao@...il.com, zaurus-devel@...ts.linuxtogo.org,
	Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@...il.com>
Subject: Re: zaurus pata_pcmcia corrupted filesystem

Cyril Hrubis wrote:

> These seems to be different, at least it newer occured so often to me. Now
> installing debian packages often fails because it cannot remove temporary
> files, the filesystem worked reasonably good before.
> 
> The usecase is to unpack archive with a lot rather small files somewhere deeper
> to the filesystem tree. Eg. installing gtk2-devel failed miserably when trying
> to move all the header files from *.h.dpkg-new to *.h, this works rather good
> with old driver.

Well, I remember opkg crashes while installing emacs (many small files)
and file system corruption as well. Both with kernel 2.6.26.

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Stanislav Brabec
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