Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 29 May 1998 17:35:40 +1200 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: Confirmation; Severe ext2fs Corruption in 2.1.98 |
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> In short; this is a kernel bug. It is NOT pretty. I don't know WHAT causes > it. I can't even reproduce it. Which makes fixing it a LOT harder.
Every two weeks or so there is a posting about ext2fs corruption.
Most of them turn out to be hardware related or maybe the buffer-cache or some kernel memory gets trashed by buggy driver or something....
If someone can reliable provide a bug that will hose their file system I'd be really keen to try it out.
I've been doing evil things to various ext2fs filesystems of the last week for a variety of reasons, and I absolutely cannot produce file system corruption that I would blame on the ext2fs code[*], so if somebody has an evil technique that makes the ext2fs code break I would really like to know about it....
[*] 'gdb vmlinux /proc/kcore' and modifying stuff on a live system doesn't count. I got what I deserved....
-Chris
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