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Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 14:18:02 +0200 From: Nanakos Chrysostomos <nanakos@...ed-net.gr> To: tytso@....edu Cc: linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: Ext4 Kernel Crash Hi Ted, I tried a newer kernel and for the moment there are no problems. I am testing our systems this weekend and the new week. I will let you know the results. Kind regards, Chris On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 12:26:59PM -0500, Ted Ts'o wrote: > On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 07:50:57PM +0200, Nanakos Chrysostomos wrote: > > Dear Linux Kernel Developers, > > I am writing to report a kernel or ext4 bug. > > Hi Nanakos, > > My apologies for not responding to the message that you sent to me > personally three days ago, but I was on vacation in Hawaii; the best > place to send queries about ext4 file systems is to use the > linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org mailing list. > > One thing that I would immediately suggest is to see whether you can > reproduce this bug using a modern kernel. You are currently using a > RHEL6-derived kernel (2.6.32-220.4.1.el6.x86_64). The ext4 file > system in such a kernel is quite different from what is in upstream, > and there were a large number of bugs that have been fixed in ext4 > since 2.6.32. Many of these fixes were backported into the RHEL6 > kernel, but I'm not an expert on which fixes have been backported into > RHEL6 and which haven't. (Especially since Red Hat doesn't release > broken-out patches for their RHEL kernels....) > > My understanding is that Gluster doesn't require any kernel-side > patches, so it should be OK to run Gluster on a v3.2 kernel. > Alternatively, if you are a paid customer of RHEL6, I'd suggest > sending a support request to Red Hat. > > Best regards, > > - 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/ -- 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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