Re: kernel BUG at volumes.c:1705

[Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>]

On Sat, 2008-06-21 at 11:35 +0200, Thomas Lindroth wrote:
> Chris Mason wrote:
> > So, is the bittorrent program run every time you see the memory
> > corruption?
> > 
> > Could you please send along a few of the most common errors you see?
> 
> 
> It's possible to recreate it with mv, cp and other tools without having
> the torrent program running.
> 
> I've found a way to trigger the problem every time. If I copy a folder
> with music videos to a freshly created FS it will always fail on the
> same file when about 5.6G of data has been copied. The FS is 30G and
> there is nothing special with that file. If I only copy that file to a
> fresh FS everything works. I've also tried to run
> dd if=/dev/zero of=test to a fresh FS and I was able to write 15G, but I
> was not able to remove that file.
> 

Something in your config is much less stable than my test boxes here.
Focusing on the dd test, it looks like random corruption in the FS
metadata.  I see you've got gentoo i386 and a 2.6.24 kernel, are there
any other patches in that kernel?

-chris