This message generated a parse failure. Raw output follows here. Please use 'back' to navigate. From devnull@lkml.org Thu Apr 25 16:48:10 2024 Received: from entropy.muc.muohio.edu (entropy.muc.muohio.edu [134.53.213.10]) by herbie.ucs.indiana.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA02937 for ; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 13:34:03 -0500 (EST) Received: from vger.rutgers.edu (root@vger.rutgers.edu [128.6.190.2]) by entropy.muc.muohio.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA23600; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 14:32:13 -0400 Received: by vger.rutgers.edu id <154294-1025>; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 12:45:26 -0400 Received: from t4o9p34.telia.com ([194.236.185.202]:1049 "EHLO localhost.yoyodyne.com" ident: "jb") by vger.rutgers.edu with ESMTP id <154532-1025> convert rfc822-to-8bit; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 10:24:23 -0400 Received: (from jb@localhost) by localhost.yoyodyne.com (8.8.8/8.8.8/Debian/GNU) id QAA02427 for linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 16:26:02 +0200 Message-Id: <19980805162429.A2235@k2.lund.se> Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 16:24:29 +0200 From: Jakob Borg To: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" Subject: Re: Irritating ext2fs corruption [solved] References: <19980804021019.B3178@k2.lund.se> <199808042021.QAA26956@dcl.MIT.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93i In-Reply-To: <199808042021.QAA26956@dcl.MIT.EDU>; from Theodore Y. Ts'o on Tue, Aug 04, 1998 at 04:21:07PM -0400 X-Operating-System: Linux narayan 2.1.112 i586 X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu Sender: owner-linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu Precedence: bulk X-Loop: majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu On Tue, Aug 04, 1998 at 04:21:07PM -0400, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: > Is this something you can reliably reproduce on your machine? If so, > can you try simply creating the image file using mkisofs, then > immediately deleting it, and see if you can reproduce the problem that > way. > P.S. In my mind at least, we haven't ruled out some kind of wierd > hardware problem yet.... Well it seems it is a wetware problem: my brain. I did a few more tests and realized that I had assumed the loop device was unregistered when the (loop-mounted) filesystem was unounted (shouldn't it perhaps be? obviously not). When unregistered, the file dissapears nicely. Sorry to cause such a stir for nothing ;( Script started on Wed Aug 5 16:01:58 1998 jb@narayan:~# df Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/root 5408794 3741601 1667193 69% / /dev/hda2 784872 534758 250114 68% /home/jb /dev/scd0 643322 643322 0 100% /cd0 jb@narayan:~# mkhybrid -J -r -o stuff.iso /usr/local/data/audio/mp3/songs\ by\ g roup/{[a-e]}* [snip status messages] jb@narayan:~# df Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/root 5408794 4280767 1128027 79% / /dev/hda2 784872 534758 250114 68% /home/jb /dev/scd0 643322 643322 0 100% /cd0 jb@narayan:~# rm stuff.iso jb@narayan:~# df Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/root 5408794 3741617 1667177 69% / /dev/hda2 784872 534758 250114 68% /home/jb /dev/scd0 643322 643322 0 100% /cd0 jb@narayan:~# mkhybrid -J -r -o stuff.iso /usr/local/data/audio/mp3/songs\ by\ g roup/{[a-e]}* [snip status messages] jb@narayan:~# df Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/root 5408794 4280774 1128020 79% / /dev/hda2 784872 534758 250114 68% /home/jb /dev/scd0 643322 643322 0 100% /cd0 jb@narayan:~# mount stuff.iso /mnt -o loop jb@narayan:~# umount /mnt jb@narayan:~# mount /dev/root on / type ext2 (rw) /proc on /proc type proc (rw) /dev/hda2 on /home/jb type ext2 (rw,mand,noatime) /dev/scd0 on /cd0 type iso9660 (ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev) jb@narayan:~# rm stuff.iso jb@narayan:~# df Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/root 5408794 4280786 1128008 79% / /dev/hda2 784872 534758 250114 68% /home/jb /dev/scd0 643322 643322 0 100% /cd0 jb@narayan:~# losetup -d /dev/loop0 jb@narayan:~# df Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/root 5408794 3741636 1667158 69% / /dev/hda2 784872 534758 250114 68% /home/jb /dev/scd0 643322 643322 0 100% /cd0 jb@narayan:~# ^Dexit Script done on Wed Aug 5 16:12:20 1998 -- Jakob Borg [Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 narayan 2.1.112 i586] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.altern.org/andrebalsa/doc/lkml-faq.html