Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 6 Dec 2000 18:40:46 +0100 | From | Jan Niehusmann <> | Subject | Re: Trashing ext2 with hdparm |
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On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 06:25:15PM +0100, Udo A. Steinberg wrote: > hdparm -tT /dev/hdb1 does the trick here. > > After that, several files are corrupted, such as /etc/mtab. > Reboot+fsck fixes the problem, however e2fsck never finds > any errors in the fs on disk.
I'm currently trying to isolate a bug that is triggered by invalidate_buffers and leads to in-memory filesystem corruption. As hdparm -tT AFAIK calls invalidate_buffers (through BLKFLSBUF), this may be related.
Jan
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