From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Sandeen Subject: Re: Possible ext3 corruption with 1K block size Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 09:38:33 -0500 Message-ID: <48F751E9.8070705@redhat.com> References: <200810150724.42180.arvidjaar@mail.ru> <48F5E6D4.8080603@redhat.com> <200810151824.36119.arvidjaar@mail.ru> <48F601A5.1050405@redhat.com> <1224164860.11578.14.camel@plop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Andrey Borzenkov , pterjan@mandriva.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List To: Pascal Terjan Return-path: Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:58560 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753893AbYJPOip (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:38:45 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1224164860.11578.14.camel@plop> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Pascal Terjan wrote: > Le mercredi 15 octobre 2008 =E0 09:43 -0500, Eric Sandeen a =E9crit : >> Andrey Borzenkov wrote: >>> On Wednesday 15 October 2008, Eric Sandeen wrote: >> >>>> My kingdom for a testcase... does anyone have simple steps to repr= oduce >>>> this? Or do they all start with "install mandriva on a 1k block s= ize >>>> system?" :) >>>> >>> May be RH will do? :) >> I did try a 1k-block root fs Fedora install, and didn't see any prob= lems... >> >>> As indicated by last comment, Pascal has some ways to trigger it; I >>> forgot to Cc to him initially; doing it now. >> Ok, good deal. >> >=20 > On my test machine I reproduce it easily : rpm --rebuilddb and if the= db > is not detected to be corrupted yet it will be after installing a few > packages (tested again with 2.6.27). >=20 > If I do the rebuilddb on a 2.6.17 and then reboot on a recent kernel, > then I can install/uninstall thousands of packages without any > corruption. so it seems to be the database rebuilding, under a recent kernel, which causes the problem? installing under a recent kernel is ok, as long as the db was created on an older kernel? Ok that's a good clue... -Eric -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html