Reiser4/2.6.11 dbench hang

[Christian Mayrhuber <christian.mayrhuber@gmx.net>]

Hi,

If I'm running plain 2.6.11(.0) patched with 
reiser4-for-2.6.11-broken-out.2.gz I can hang reiser4 when running
ftp://ftp.samba.org/pub/tridge/dbench/dbench-3.02.tar.gz
for about an hour with the following script.

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#!/bin/sh

RUNTIME=200

run()
{
     t=$1
     n=$2
     sync
     date
     if [ $t = xattr ]; then
         ./dbench -c client.txt -x -D /tmp -t$RUNTIME $n
     else
         ./dbench -c client.txt -D /tmp -t$RUNTIME $n
     fi
}


while :; do
   for n in 90 100 110 120 130 140 150 160 170 180 190 200; do
      run noxattr $n
   done
done
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After a hard reset reiser4progs 1.0.4 reported semantic tree 
corruptions. (No, I didn't write down the fsck.reiser4 output.)

I tried it out because I found the following on linux-kernel:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=110099542612492&w=2

This behaviour is reproducible. I tried ext3,reiserfs,xfs and jfs
on the same disk with the same data, all ran dbench fine till
user abort without locking the machine.

# cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.6.11-k7-reiser4 (root@byblos) (gcc-Version 3.3.5 (Debian 
1:3.3.5-5)) #1 Mon Mar 28 20:23:57 CEST 2005


Quote from namesys.com/download.html
 >Reiser4 has just been released. Namesys has the most stringent QA
 >process of any Linux maintainer, a firm belief that no user should hit
 >a bug that developer testing could find first if the effort is made, a
 >by now grand archive of filesystem tests, and no one on our mailing
 >list can make it crash any more, and all of this is why it took us so
 >long to release it, but until a program has seen a few million real
 >users you should not use it for a mission critical server.

I guess dbench-3.x stress testing is missing from your grand archive ;-)

-- 
lg, Chris