From: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
To: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>,
linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>,
Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@netapp.com>,
Peng Tao <bergwolf@gmail.com>,
Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Apparent serious progressive ext4 data corruption bug in 3.6.3 (and other stable branches?)
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2012 22:19:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87haphx76u.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121026211542.GE8614@thunk.org> (Theodore Ts'o's message of "Fri, 26 Oct 2012 17:15:42 -0400")
On 26 Oct 2012, Theodore Ts'o uttered the following:
> The plan is that eventually, we will have checksums on a
> per-journalled block basis, instead of a per-commit basis, and when we
> get a failed checksum, we skip the replay of that block,
But not of everything it implies, since that's quite tricky to track
down (it's basically the same work needed for softupdates, but in
reverse). Hence the e2fsck check, I suppose.
> prevent unwary civilians from coming across the feature and saying,
> "oooh, shiny!" and turning it on. :-(
Or having it turned on by default either, which seems to be the case
now.
--
NULL && (void)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-26 21:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <87objupjlr.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix>
2012-10-23 1:33 ` Heads-up: 3.6.2 / 3.6.3 NFS server panic: 3.6.2+ regression? J. Bruce Fields
2012-10-23 14:07 ` Nix
2012-10-23 14:30 ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-10-23 16:32 ` Heads-up: 3.6.2 / 3.6.3 NFS server oops: 3.6.2+ regression? (also an unrelated ext4 data loss bug) Nix
2012-10-23 16:46 ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-10-23 16:54 ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-10-23 16:56 ` Myklebust, Trond
2012-10-23 17:05 ` Nix
2012-10-23 17:36 ` Nix
2012-10-23 17:43 ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-10-23 17:44 ` Myklebust, Trond
2012-10-23 17:57 ` Myklebust, Trond
[not found] ` <1351015039.4622.23.camel@lade.trondhjem.org>
2012-10-23 18:23 ` Myklebust, Trond
2012-10-23 19:49 ` Nix
2012-10-24 10:18 ` [PATCH] lockd: fix races in per-net NSM client handling Stanislav Kinsbursky
2012-10-23 20:57 ` Apparent serious progressive ext4 data corruption bug in 3.6.3 (and other stable branches?) Nix
2012-10-24 1:13 ` Eric Sandeen
2012-10-24 4:15 ` Nix
2012-10-24 4:27 ` Eric Sandeen
2012-10-26 20:35 ` Eric Sandeen
2012-10-26 20:37 ` Nix
2012-10-26 20:56 ` Theodore Ts'o
2012-10-26 20:59 ` Nix
2012-10-26 21:15 ` Theodore Ts'o
2012-10-26 21:19 ` Nix [this message]
2012-10-27 0:22 ` Theodore Ts'o
2012-10-27 3:11 ` Jim Rees
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