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From: Tomas Szepe <szepe@pinerecords.com>
To: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
Cc: David Madore <david.madore@ens.fr>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: filesystem corruption (ReiserFS, 2.6.6): regions replaced by \000 bytes
Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 18:45:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040528164544.GF422@louise.pinerecords.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1085761753.22636.3329.camel@watt.suse.com>

On May-28 2004, Fri, 12:29 -0400
Chris Mason <mason@suse.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 12:24, Tomas Szepe wrote:
> > On May-28 2004, Fri, 08:46 -0400
> > Chris Mason <mason@suse.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > > The bottom line: I've experienced file corruption, of the following
> > > > nature: consecutive regions (all, it seems, aligned on 256-byte
> > > > boundaries, and typically around 1kb or 2kb in length) of seemingly
> > > > random files are replaced by null bytes.  
> > > 
> > > The good news is that we tracked this one down recently.  2.6.7-rc1
> > > shouldn't do this anymore.
> > 
> > So did this only affect SMP machines?
> 
> No, if you slept in the right spot you could hit it on UP.

Uh oh.  Any idea about when the bug was introduced?

-- 
Tomas Szepe <szepe@pinerecords.com>

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-05-28 16:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-28 12:28 filesystem corruption (ReiserFS, 2.6.6): regions replaced by \000 bytes David Madore
2004-05-28 12:46 ` Chris Mason
2004-05-28 13:05   ` Lenar Lõhmus
2004-05-28 16:24   ` Tomas Szepe
2004-05-28 16:29     ` Chris Mason
2004-05-28 16:42       ` Pat
2004-05-28 16:54         ` Chris Mason
2004-05-28 16:45       ` Tomas Szepe [this message]
2004-05-28 16:55         ` Chris Mason
2004-05-28 16:58         ` Steven Cole
2004-05-29 11:56     ` Lenar Lõhmus
     [not found]   ` <1085750828.1914.385.camel@tribesman.namesys.com>
     [not found]     ` <1085751695.22636.3163.camel@watt.suse.com>
2004-05-31 16:48       ` I would like to see ReiserFS V3 enter a feature freeze real soon Hans Reiser
2004-06-01 11:37         ` Chris Mason
2004-06-01 17:02           ` Hans Reiser
2004-06-01 18:53             ` Chris Mason

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