Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 13 Feb 2001 00:01:51 +0300 | From | Hans Reiser <> | Subject | Re: [reiserfs-list] Re: Apparent instability of reiserfs on 2.4.1 |
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Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Hans Reiser wrote: > > > Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > > > > On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Chris Mason wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Sunday, February 11, 2001 10:00:11 AM +0300 Hans Reiser > > > > <reiser@namesys.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Daniel Stone wrote: > > > > >> > > > > >> On 11 Feb 2001 02:02:00 +1300, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > > > > >> > On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 05:34:44PM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote: > > > > >> > > > > > >> > I run Reiser on all but /boot, and it seems to enjoy corrupting my > > > > >> > mbox'es randomly. > > > > >> > > > > > >> > what kind of corruption are you seeing? > > > > >> > > > > >> Zeroed bytes. > > > > > > > > > > This sounds like the same bug as the syslog bug, please try to help Chris > > > > > reproduce it. > > > > > > > > > > zam, if Chris can't reproduce it by Monday, please give it a try. > > > > > > > > > > > > > I had a bunch of scripts running over the weekend to try and reproduce > > > > this, but the results were ruined when a major storm killed the power (no, > > > > still haven't gotten around to configuring my UPS to shut things down ;-). > > > > > > > > So, I'll try again. > > > > > > 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. > > > > Was the bug you describe also present in the 2.2.* series? If not, then the > > bugs are not the same. > > N.
Zam will try to reproduce it tomorrow, he successfully escaped me today and got to write fun code (a simpler block allocator) instead.
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