Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 10 May 2002 11:15:45 -0700 | From | Larry McVoy <> | Subject | Re: BK problem |
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On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 12:58:12PM -0500, Eli Carter wrote: > Larry McVoy wrote: > > Hi, we've got a problem in one of Linus' trees and it has started to > > propagate around. I need your help to track it down and fix it. > > Please run the following script on your Linux BK trees and contact > > me if it tells you to do so. You can fix up the tree by doing the > > following (warning: takes lots and lots of CPU time so if you don't > > need the tree it may well be faster to reclone tomorrow after I finish > > fixing the trees on bkbits). > > Would you mind giving something of a lay-man's explanation of what went > wrong and what that means? In particular, I'm curious about the > propagating part...
The short summary is that two people used Linus' import tools and because of no error on his part, simply the way things worked out, that caused what we call "duplicate keys" (a lot like duplicate inodes, a lot like it) when the trees with the imported patch came together. I wrote a script to fix up the trees after the fact and the application of that script went wrong in Linus' tree but was not noticed until later. It started showing up as pull errors and then we tracked it down.
The long explanation would take me too long to do in email, I have carpal problems and it would amount to writing a "how BK works" paper and that's too much for me right now. If you want to understand the nitty gritty, we can go to voice and I'll tell you. So far, talking doesn't seem to hurt my wrists :) -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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