From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Thu, 10 May 2007 15:58:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from larry.melbourne.sgi.com (larry.melbourne.sgi.com [134.14.52.130]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with SMTP id l4AMwhfB019892 for ; Thu, 10 May 2007 15:58:45 -0700 Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 08:58:34 +1000 From: David Chinner Subject: Re: 2.6.21-git10/11: files getting truncated on xfs? or maybe an nlink problem? Message-ID: <20070510225834.GF86004887@sgi.com> References: <4642389E.4080804@goop.org> <20070509231643.GM85884050@sgi.com> <4642598E.3000607@goop.org> <20070510000119.GO85884050@sgi.com> <46426194.3040403@goop.org> <46439185.5060207@redhat.com> <464392B4.3070009@goop.org> <464393E1.3050705@redhat.com> <46439491.9010604@goop.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <46439491.9010604@goop.org> Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Cc: Chuck Ebbert , David Chinner , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Matt Mackall , xfs@oss.sgi.com On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 02:54:25PM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > Chuck Ebbert wrote: > > Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > > > >> Chuck Ebbert wrote: > >> > >>> What CPU architecture is this happening on? Not i686 with PAE by > >>> any chance? > >>> > >> Yes. Why? > >> > > > > I have a bug report where NFS files are corrupted only with PAE clients. > > Corruption is at the end of the (newly untarred) files. Doesn't happen > > without PAE. > > > > Hm, suggestive, but I'm not convinced. Two differences to this situation: > > 1. Immediately after the clone ("untar"), the contents are completely > OK; it's only after a umount/mount cycle to problems appear > 2. There's no corruption as such; the files are just too short. And > it seems they're at a previously OK length, not some random size. Just to confirm this isn't a result of a recent change, can you reproduce this on a 2.6.20 or 2.6.21 kernel? (sorry if you've already done this - I've juggling some many things at once it's easy to forget little things). Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner Principal Engineer SGI Australian Software Group