Filesystem corruption

Filesystem corruption

[Carsten Langgaard]

Has anyone seen problems with fsck on the latest 2.4.0 kernel ?
My filesystem gets corrupted from time to time when I use the latest
2.4.0 kernel.

/Carsten


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Re: Filesystem corruption

[Florian Lohoff]

On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 03:20:35PM +0100, Carsten Langgaard wrote:
> 
> Has anyone seen problems with fsck on the latest 2.4.0 kernel ?
> My filesystem gets corrupted from time to time when I use the latest
> 2.4.0 kernel.
> 

Hmm - nope - 2.4.0 Bigendian here 

resume:~# uptime
 3:50pm  up 6 days, 10 min,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
resume:~# uname -a
Linux resume.rfc822.org 2.4.0 #3 Thu Jan 25 16:25:23 CET 2001 mips unknown

Flo
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Re: Filesystem corruption

[Carsten Langgaard]

Try use fsck.

/Carsten

Florian Lohoff wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 03:20:35PM +0100, Carsten Langgaard wrote:
> >
> > Has anyone seen problems with fsck on the latest 2.4.0 kernel ?
> > My filesystem gets corrupted from time to time when I use the latest
> > 2.4.0 kernel.
> >
>
> Hmm - nope - 2.4.0 Bigendian here
>
> resume:~# uptime
>  3:50pm  up 6 days, 10 min,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
> resume:~# uname -a
> Linux resume.rfc822.org 2.4.0 #3 Thu Jan 25 16:25:23 CET 2001 mips unknown
>
> Flo
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> Florian Lohoff                  flo@rfc822.org             +49-5201-669912
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Re: Filesystem corruption

[Florian Lohoff]

On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 05:24:58PM +0100, Carsten Langgaard wrote:
> 
> Try use fsck.
> 

*Urgs* Trouble ...



resume:~# df
Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1              2074328   1360061    607040  70% /
/dev/sde1              3839092    217476   3426600   6% /chroot
/dev/sdb1              4003992   3708044     89260  98% /home2
/dev/sdc1              4003992    449472   3347832  12% /home3
/dev/sdd1              4003992   1134620   2662684  30% /ftp.rfc822.org
resume:~# umount /ftp.rfc822.org/
resume:~# fsck -f /dev/sdd1
Parallelizing fsck version 1.18 (11-Nov-1999)
e2fsck 1.18, 11-Nov-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Inode 64654, i_blocks is 42696, should be 44744.  Fix<y>? yes

Duplicate blocks found... invoking duplicate block passes.
Pass 1B: Rescan for duplicate/bad blocks
Duplicate/bad block(s) in inode 64654: 265881 ... ... ...
Duplicate/bad block(s) in inode 193927: 265881 ... ... ...
Pass 1C: Scan directories for inodes with dup blocks.
Pass 1D: Reconciling duplicate blocks
(There are 2 inodes containing duplicate/bad blocks.)

File /kernel/kernel-image-2.4.0-ip22-r4k.tgz (inode #193927, mod time Thu Jan 25 11:17:00 2001) 
  has 251 duplicate block(s), shared with 1 file(s):
	/devel/gcc-20000822-mips.tar.gz (inode #64654, mod time Mon Aug 28 17:14:56 2000)
Clone duplicate/bad blocks<y>? yes

File /devel/gcc-20000822-mips.tar.gz (inode #64654, mod time Mon Aug 28 17:14:56 2000) 
  has 251 duplicate block(s), shared with 1 file(s):
	/kernel/kernel-image-2.4.0-ip22-r4k.tgz (inode #193927, mod time Thu Jan 25 11:17:00 2001)
Duplicated blocks already reassigned or cloned.

Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
Block bitmap differences:  +265876 +265877 +265878 +265879 +265880
Fix<y>? yes

Free blocks count wrong for group #0 (29960, counted=29709).
Fix<y>? yes

Free blocks count wrong for group #8 (5, counted=0).
Fix<y>? yes

Free blocks count wrong (717343, counted=717087).
Fix<y>? yes


/dev/sdd1: ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****
/dev/sdd1: 6277/1034240 files (21.0% non-contiguous), 316359/1033446 blocks



I ran -test6 and -test9 before.

Flo
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Re: Filesystem corruption

[Ralf Baechle]

On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 03:20:35PM +0100, Carsten Langgaard wrote:

> Has anyone seen problems with fsck on the latest 2.4.0 kernel ?
> My filesystem gets corrupted from time to time when I use the latest
> 2.4.0 kernel.

2.4.1 is known to cause fs corruption for all architectures; 2.4.0 should
actually be fine.  I just reached 8 days of uptime on a 32p Origin 2000,
so it can't be that bad.

  Ralf

Re: Filesystem corruption

[Alan Cox]

> 2.4.1 is known to cause fs corruption for all architectures; 2.4.0 should
> actually be fine.  I just reached 8 days of uptime on a 32p Origin 2000,
> so it can't be that bad.

Im tracking fs corruption and worse on 2.4.0 as well (zero page corruptions
since 2.4.0test10 for example)

I dont believe any 2.4 is currently 'safe'

Re: Filesystem corruption

[Alan Cox]

> 2.4.1 is known to cause fs corruption for all architectures; 2.4.0 should
> actually be fine.  I just reached 8 days of uptime on a 32p Origin 2000,
> so it can't be that bad.

Im tracking fs corruption and worse on 2.4.0 as well (zero page corruptions
since 2.4.0test10 for example)

I dont believe any 2.4 is currently 'safe'

Re: Filesystem corruption

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
> > 2.4.1 is known to cause fs corruption for all architectures; 2.4.0 should
> > actually be fine.  I just reached 8 days of uptime on a 32p Origin 2000,
> > so it can't be that bad.
> 
> Im tracking fs corruption and worse on 2.4.0 as well (zero page corruptions
> since 2.4.0test10 for example)

Is the zero page mapped on non-m68k architectures?

> I dont believe any 2.4 is currently 'safe'

Ugh...

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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Re: Filesystem corruption

[Alan Cox]

> Is the zero page mapped on non-m68k architectures?

It can certainly be hit by DMA and kernel memory ops

> > I dont believe any 2.4 is currently 'safe'
> Ugh...

We'll get there, its doing pretty well for most folks

Re: Filesystem corruption

[Alan Cox]

> Is the zero page mapped on non-m68k architectures?

It can certainly be hit by DMA and kernel memory ops

> > I dont believe any 2.4 is currently 'safe'
> Ugh...

We'll get there, its doing pretty well for most folks

Re: Filesystem corruption

[Ralf Baechle]

On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 01:01:33PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:

> > Is the zero page mapped on non-m68k architectures?
> 
> It can certainly be hit by DMA and kernel memory ops
> 
> > > I dont believe any 2.4 is currently 'safe'
> > Ugh...
> 
> We'll get there, its doing pretty well for most folks

I hope so.  For many of us 2.2 is no longer an option.  That is at least
without heavy patching to add support for hardware that isn't supported
by 2.2.

  Ralf

Re: Filesystem corruption

[Ralf Baechle]

On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 01:01:33PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:

> > Is the zero page mapped on non-m68k architectures?
> 
> It can certainly be hit by DMA and kernel memory ops
> 
> > > I dont believe any 2.4 is currently 'safe'
> > Ugh...
> 
> We'll get there, its doing pretty well for most folks

I hope so.  For many of us 2.2 is no longer an option.  That is at least
without heavy patching to add support for hardware that isn't supported
by 2.2.

  Ralf

Re: Filesystem corruption

[Ian Chilton]

Hello,

> I dont believe any 2.4 is currently 'safe'

auchhh..

If Alan Cox himself (nearly as bad as Linus saying it..) is saying
that, I am glad I am still running 2.2.17/18 on my servers and am
wondering if I should have upgraded my workstations to 2.4.1  ;(


Bye for Now,

Ian

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Re: Filesystem corruption

[Ian Chilton]

Hello,

> If you're worried about it, do what I do.  Pick one server that always
> runs a known stable release and keep your working/home directories on it
> as NFS exports.  Run your development kernel/tools on an NFS client box.
> That way when it croaks, you don't wast a lot of you time fscking and
> possibly loosing files.


That's basically what I do..


Bye for Now,

Ian


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