From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Mason Subject: Re: 2.4.19-pre7 / corruption on unwanted reboot Date: 04 May 2002 22:07:28 -0400 Message-ID: <1020564448.3946.609.camel@tiny> References: <20020504211147.GA20092@matrix.wg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: In-Reply-To: <20020504211147.GA20092@matrix.wg> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Dirk Mueller Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com On Sat, 2002-05-04 at 17:11, Dirk Mueller wrote: > Hi, > > I've seen HEAVY file corruption on unwanted reboots (like pressing the reset > button accidently) on reiserfs with this kernel on 3 machines now. > > The symptom is that it finds a LOT of files to "unlink" on journal replay, > which I find suspicious as those machines are lightly loaded. > > I didn't follow the development too closely the last few weeks, but I > believe that something turned worse in this respect lately. > > Note that reiserfsck doesn't find any error in the file system structure > before and after the journal replay on reboot, > still many files (especially those that were not touched for several hours > before the reboot) contain complete garbage after the journal replay. Hmmm, not good at all. Are these 3 systems IDE or scsi? Do they run additional patches on top of pre7? What kernels < pre7 have you tried that didn't show this problem? -chris