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From: Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: How to break a reiserfs on Linux 2.4.20
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 18:32:24 +0300
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To: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
Cc: Zygo Blaxell <eazgwmir@umail.furryterror.org>, reiserfs-list@namesys.com

Hello!

On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 10:29:03AM -0500, Chris Mason wrote:

> These aren't good at all, either the locking on the commit lists is
> broken or the buffer head management is going wrong.

> Oleg, do you have any leads or do you want me to try reproducing?

Well, I found something looking like a race in VFS (I sent a mail to lkml
earlier today). reiserfs_link is called with inodes that have zero i_nlink.
But I do not see how that might explain journaling stuff.
I have not tried the script on SMP yet, though.

Bye,
    Oleg