[Bug 14354] Bad corruption with 2.6.32-rc1 and upwards

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--- Comment #173 from Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>  2009-11-03 14:32:26 ---
(In reply to comment #172)
> There's a lot more we need to understand --- including why we weren't seeing a
> printk message indicating a journal checksum, and which commit was showing the
> checksum failure, and why we ended up seeing a checksum failure in the first
> place.   If it was the last commit that was being written right before the
> system crash, the commit block simply should have been missing due to the
> barrier.   But we can do this without having to worry about 2.6.32 being a QA
> disaster for ext4.  :-)

I am looking for the checksum problem today.  I agree, seeing an
otherwise-valid commit block w/ a bad checksum is very troubling - barrier
infrastructure problems?  Or something else, will have to see.

I know why we're not seeing a printk, already; it's under a RDONLY test, and
the root fs is mounted readonly; I have a patch for that though I wonder what
the right choice is when we encounter this corruption - I'm leaning towards
treating it like any other corruption and going through ext4_error...

...anyway, still looking at all this today, even w/ the .32 qa disaster averted
for now.  :)

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