Re: filesystem corruption in linus tree

[Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>]

Marc Dietrich wrote:
> Hi again,
> 
> On Tuesday 26 February 2008 08:38:50 Lachlan McIlroy wrote:
>> Marc Dietrich wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On Monday 25 February 2008 01:36:28 Barry Naujok wrote:
>>>> On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 20:58:26 +1100, Marc Dietrich
>>>>
>>>> <Marc.Dietrich@ap.physik.uni-giessen.de> wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> somewhere after the release of 2.6.24 my xfs filesystem got corrupted.
>>>>> Initialy I thought it was only related to the readdir bug.
>>>>> (http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2008-02/msg00027.html) So I waited for
>>>>> the fix to go into mainline. Yesterday I tried again, but got this
>>>>> error during boot:
> 
> <sniped>
> 
>> We've had a few problems reported with XFS on 32-bit powermacs and the
>> culprit appears to be some changes to bit manipulation routines.  Could you
>> please try reverse applying the attached patches and see if the problem is
>> resolved?
> 
> I saw, that you already pushed it into mainline - for a good reason ;-) Works 
> as expeted.
> 
> Please also don't forget 2.6.24-stable !

The changes that caused this regression went into 2.6.25-rc1 so no need for a
2.6.24 stable fix.