From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263166AbTLEEeM (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Dec 2003 23:34:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263241AbTLEEeM (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Dec 2003 23:34:12 -0500 Received: from mtvcafw.SGI.COM ([192.48.171.6]:167 "EHLO rj.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263166AbTLEEeJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Dec 2003 23:34:09 -0500 Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 15:32:17 +1100 From: Nathan Scott To: Neil Brown Cc: Jens Axboe , Linus Torvalds , David =?iso-8859-1?Q?Mart=EDnez?= Moreno , Kernel Mailing List , clubinfo.servers@adi.uam.es, Ingo Molnar , Mihai RUSU Subject: Re: Errors and later panics in 2.6.0-test11. Message-ID: <20031205043217.GA1990@frodo> References: <200312031417.18462.ender@debian.org> <200312031747.16927.ender@debian.org> <20031204124342.GD1086@suse.de> <20031204140738.GE1086@suse.de> <16335.63095.266710.554162@notabene.cse.unsw.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <16335.63095.266710.554162@notabene.cse.unsw.edu.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 02:07:35PM +1100, Neil Brown wrote: > On Thursday December 4, axboe@suse.de wrote: > > > > I can just as easily reproduce with ext2, so I don't think XFS has > > anything to do with it. This is still raid5 with dm linear on top. > > > > Thanks. The more evidence the better.... > > After staring at the code over and ove again, I finally saw the > assumption that I was making that was invalid. I also found a > possible data-corruption bug in the process. > > If you have been having problems with raid5, please try this patch and > see if it helps. Yes, thats fixed it. That reproducible test case I had no longer shows any problems. cheers. -- Nathan