linux-kernel - Re: 3.6.0 kernel - ext4 corruption, or?

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Message-ID: <20121024144025.GA30955@thunk.org>
Date:	Wed, 24 Oct 2012 14:40:25 +0000
From:	tytso@....edu
To:	Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@...idpixels.com>,
	"Steven J. Magnani" <steve@...idescorp.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 3.6.0 kernel - ext4 corruption, or?

On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 08:15:37AM -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote:
> 
> I read there was a bug in 3.6.2, is there also one in 3.6.0, or can someone
> help explain this?

The problem which we are currently trying to investigate was
reportedly introduced in v3.6.1.  So far that's about how we know; we
have two users who have reported it, but I and other ext4 developers
haven't been able to reproduce it yet.

> # grep 10.0.0.11 -r /etc
> /etc/posfix.old/master.cf:10.0.0.11:smtp         inet  n       -       -
> -        1    postscreen
> 
> # ls -l /etc/posfix.old/master.cf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13236 Oct 28  2011 /etc/posfix.old/master.cf
> 
> # ls -ld /etc/postfix.old
> ls: cannot access /etc/postfix.old: No such file or directory
> 

Looks like you or some script renamed /etc/postfix to /etc/posfix.old
as part some upgrade?

      	       	       	      	      		   - Ted

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