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SubjectRe: [reiserfs-list] Re: Apparent instability of reiserfs on 2.4.1


On Monday, February 12, 2001 11:42:38 PM +0300 Hans Reiser
<reiser@namesys.com> wrote:

>> Chris,
>>
>> Do you know if the people reporting the corruption with reiserfs on
>> 2.4 were using IDE drives with PIO mode and IDE multicount turned on?
>>
>> If so, it may be caused by the problem fixed by Russell King on
>> 2.4.2-pre2.
>>
>> Without his fix, I was able to corrupt ext2 while using PIO+multicount
>> very very easily.
>

I suspect the bugfixes in pre2 will fix some of the more exotic corruption
reports we've seen, but this one (nulls in log files) probably isn't caused
by a random (or semi-random) lower layer corruption. These users are not
seeing random metadata corruption, so I suspect this bug is different (and
reiserfs specific).

> Was the bug you describe also present in the 2.2.* series? If not, then
> the bugs are not the same.
>

In 2.2 code the only data file corruption I know if is caused by a crash....

-chris

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