From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Fabio Comolli Subject: Re: Crash in 2.6.28.7 - ext4 related Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:18:29 +0100 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Theodore Tso To: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.159]:29796 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752813AbZBZJSc (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Feb 2009 04:18:32 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: OK, I see that my message didn't reach neither linux-kernel nor linux-fsdevel, maybe because of the image size (484K). If anyone is interested in details, please let me know. Regards, Fabio On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 9:03 PM, Fabio Comolli wrote: > Hi all. > I experience hard crashes with latest stable kernel (but also in every > 2.6.28.y release). This time I was trying to remove a large directory > (a kernel tree) in a clean (fsck -f from a previous crash) ext4 > partition. > > The partition is an ext3 converted one, with extents enabled. It's > about 20gb in size. > > When the crash happened the sistem was just booted in single user; > fsck -f; mount; rm -rf ; bang. Please look at the attached > picture. > > The kernel is vanilla 2.6.28.7 + opensuse bootsplash patch. > > Please let me know if you need more details. Unfortunately for me it > seems to be pretty easily reproduceable. By the way, some of the > previous crashes did not involve file removals. > > Regards, > Fabio >