From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263923AbTLXV7x (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Dec 2003 16:59:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263927AbTLXV7w (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Dec 2003 16:59:52 -0500 Received: from ms-smtp-02-qfe0.nyroc.rr.com ([24.24.2.56]:10693 "EHLO ms-smtp-02.nyroc.rr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263923AbTLXV7v (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Dec 2003 16:59:51 -0500 Message-ID: <3FEA0C3C.9090601@cs.oswego.edu> Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 16:59:24 -0500 From: Keith Lea User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031208 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: 2.6.0-test11 data loss Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello, I'm not subscribed to this list. This is not a help request, and not really a bug report, I just thought someone should know about this. I installed the 2.6.0-beta11-mm kernel last week, and the other day my computer locked up (this is normal on my laptop with every kernel version I've tried, this isn't the problem I'm posting about). When I restarted, many, many files that had been open when it locked up were filled with garbage, or the contents of totally unrelated files. For example, my syslog contained some KDE header file code, and /sbin/modprobe contained 82kb of data that seemed like random noise. I think each file was the same size as it was originally, just with different data, but I'm not sure. The corruption happened on two separate partitions on a single IDE laptop drive, and both were ReiserFS 3.6 partitions. I don't know if this is a kernel bug or a Reiser bug or something else, but I thought the kernel developers should know about this, and be on the lookout for similar things (hopefully with more informative bug reports than mine). I'm sorry I don't have more information, but if anyone wants to know more about my system I'd be glad to help. -Keith Lea