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Message-ID: <20121026004326.GB10509@thunk.org> Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 20:43:26 -0400 From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu> To: Ric Wheeler <ricwheeler@...il.com> Cc: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>, Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@...app.com> Subject: Re: Apparent serious progressive ext4 data corruption bug in 3.6.3 (and other stable branches?) On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 08:11:12PM -0400, Ric Wheeler wrote: > > Sending this just to you two to avoid embarrassing myself if I > misread the thread, but.... > > Can we reproduce this with any other hardware RAID card? Or with MD? There was another user who reported very similar corruption using 3.6.2 using USB thumb drive. I can't be certain that it's the same bug that's being triggered, but the symptoms were identical. > If we cannot reproduce this in other machines, why assume this is an > ext4 issue and not a hardware firmware bug? > > As an ex-storage guy, this really smells like the hardware raid card > might be misleading us.... It's possible. The main reason why I took this so seriously was because of the 2nd, apparently confirming report, with very different hardware. That was what was so scary to me, at least at first. - 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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