From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh Subject: Re: Mild filesystem corruption on ext4 (no journal) Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2009 01:17:26 -0300 Message-ID: <20090606041726.GA18112@khazad-dum.debian.net> References: <4A28F83F.4030704@tuffmail.co.uk> <4A292E61.3050204@gmail.com> <4A293084.5010400@tuffmail.co.uk> <4A2937CC.7070503@redhat.com> <4A294B15.9070209@tuffmail.co.uk> <4A299151.3040109@tuffmail.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Kay Sievers , Eric Sandeen , Aioanei Rares , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List To: Alan Jenkins Return-path: Received: from out2.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.26]:35625 "EHLO out2.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753144AbZFFER3 (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Jun 2009 00:17:29 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4A299151.3040109@tuffmail.co.uk> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, 05 Jun 2009, Alan Jenkins wrote: > Not quite. Ted says it's already reported as > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13292 > > It includes an strace log which implicates the use of both mmap() and > write() on the same file. Sounds scary :-). Run Cyrus-IMAPd on that. It will cause the entire house to come down if you have any sort of misbehaviour when userspace is doing extremely annoying things. Cyrus-imapd is the mmap() test from hell. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh