Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 28 Nov 2000 21:09:09 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: corruption |
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On Wed, 29 Nov 2000 Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote: > > I did again a large test comparing two identical trees. > Found again corruption, and, upon inspection, the disk > files did not differ - this is in-core corruption only.
Ok. It definitely looks like the 1kB thing has become broken somehow.
The fact that it is in-core only doesn't mean that much - it could still easily be just problems at read-time, and if you have an IDE disk I would strongly suggest you try out the patch that Jens Axboe posted, re-initializing the "head" pointer when doing a re-merge.
That said, the VM/ext2 angle should definitely be looked at too. Nothing has really changed there in some time - can you give a rough estimate on when you suspect you started seeing it? Ie is it new to one of the test11 pre-kernels, or does it happen so occasionally that you can't tell whether it happened much earlier too?
Linus
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