Re: ReiserFS / 2.4.6 / Data Corruption

[Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>]

bvermeul@devel.blackstar.nl wrote:
> 
> > You should not see old data being corrupted.  If you are seeing it with
> > a recent ReiserFS version,
> > we'd like your help in reproducing it.
> 
> It is not old data perse. I edited those files. They have been opened, and
> written back. But it will shuffle every bit of data in those files, and
> I'll find sourcecode in the object file, *.d files, etc. The source file
> itself is mostly garbled as well.
> 
> I can see if I can come up with a module as simple as possible to
> reproduce this. (This is still a while(1); in kernel essentially, with
> a couple of seconds between the hang and the compile/install cycle)
> 
> If you're interested, let me know, and I'll see if I can make a test-case
> for you.
> 
> Bas Vermeulen
> 
> --
> "God, root, what is difference?"
>         -- Pitr, User Friendly
> 
> "God is more forgiving."
>         -- Dave Aronson
I am very much interested in a test case.

hans