Re: silent random symbolic link corruption

[David Arendt <admin-/LHdS3kC8BfYtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org>]

Hi,

The bzip2 test returned the same result.

Thank in advance,
David Arendt

David Arendt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> After using nilfs2 for half a year now on data partitions without any
> problems, I wanted to try it for the root partition. This way I
> discovered a silent random symbolic link corruption problem.
>
> Versions:
>
> latest nilfs2 git module
> kernel 2.6.28.2
> tar 1.20
>
> Step to reproduce it:
>
> tar -xpf zz1.tar (where zz1.tar is a tar file containing many symbolic
> links (in my case a directory containing 2 root filesystems for remote
> booting)
>
> On  untar some symbolic links are missing and 0 byte files are existing
> instead.
>
> I repeated the test 3 times on a freshly formated nilfs2 partition and
> always had other links missing.
>
> I am currently trying to bzip2 the big tar file and untar this one in
> order to verify if there are no timing issues and will report back when
> this test is finished.
>
> Could you please look into this ?
>
> Thanks in advance
> Bye,
> David Arendt
>
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