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From: Jim Paris <jim@jtan.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel panic, FS corruption  Was: Re: Call for RAID-6 users
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 00:04:39 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040806040439.GA21258@jim.sh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4112D2A1.9000001@zytor.com>

> If you can reproduce it with ext2/3 it would make debugging simpler, 
> because I understand the ext code and data structures a lot better.

This demonstrates it on ext2.  I can't seem to reproduce it with just
simple use of 'dd', but it shows up if I untar a ton of data.

This script:
- creates five 100MB "disks" through loopback
- puts them in a six-disk RAID-6 array (resulting size=400MB, degraded)
- untars about 350MB of data to the array
- runs e2fsck, which shows filesystem errors

Usage: 
- put r6ext.sh and big.tar.bz2 in a directory
- run r6ext.sh as root

Sorry for the huge files, but e2fsck didn't show any problems when I
scaled everything down by a factor of 10.  You could probably make
your own big.tar.bz2 and see the same problem, as there's nothing
special about this data.

  http://stonewall.mit.edu/~jim/r6ext.sh
  http://stonewall.mit.edu/~jim/big.tar.bz2 (77MB)

-jim

  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-06  4:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-23 23:32 Call for RAID-6 users H. Peter Anvin
2004-07-26 21:38 ` Jim Paris
2004-07-27  2:05   ` Matthew - RAID
2004-07-27  2:12     ` Jim Paris
2004-07-27 16:40       ` Ricky Beam
2004-07-27 17:20         ` Jim Paris
2004-07-27 18:19           ` Jim Paris
2004-07-27 18:48             ` Jim Paris
2004-07-28  3:09               ` Jim Paris
2004-07-28  8:36                 ` David Greaves
2004-07-28 10:02                   ` Jim Paris
2004-07-30 15:58   ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-07-30 19:39     ` Jim Paris
2004-07-30 19:45       ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-07-30 21:11 ` maarten van den Berg
2004-07-30 21:38   ` maarten van den Berg
2004-07-31  0:28     ` maarten van den Berg
2004-08-01 13:03       ` Kernel panic, FS corruption Was: " maarten van den Berg
2004-08-01 18:05         ` Jim Paris
2004-08-01 22:10           ` maarten van den Berg
2004-08-05 23:54           ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-08-06  0:19             ` Jim Paris
2004-08-06  0:36               ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-08-06  4:04                 ` Jim Paris [this message]
2004-08-05 23:51     ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-08-05 23:46   ` H. Peter Anvin

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