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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net>
Cc: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>,
	linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [linux-pm] Massive ext4 filesystem corruption after a failed s2disk/ram cycle
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 12:16:04 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091007161604.GA28849@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vdisq7bh.fsf@rimspace.net>

On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 01:14:10PM +1100, Daniel Pittman wrote:
> For what it is worth, I would also be quite interested to know /why/ XFS is
> bad in this regard.  Is it just the previously stated "XFS writes to disk
> despite freezing kernel threads" issue, or something deeper?

sync pushes out all data to disk, but in a journaling filesystem that
might just but the log not the "normal" place on disk.  For a boot
loader to deal with it properly it actually needs to do an replay of
the log.  Grub does so for reiserfs but not for XFS for some reason.
I don't know why problems don't trigger more often with ext3, though.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-07 16:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-06 21:06 Massive ext4 filesystem corruption after a failed s2disk/ram cycle Maxim Levitsky
2009-10-06 21:42 ` Theodore Tso
2009-10-06 23:02   ` Maxim Levitsky
2009-10-07 14:25     ` Jindrich Makovicka
2009-10-06 21:58 ` [linux-pm] " Rafael J. Wysocki
2009-10-06 22:53   ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2009-10-06 23:02     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2009-10-07  1:29       ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2009-10-07  2:14         ` Daniel Pittman
2009-10-07 16:16           ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2009-11-04  2:18             ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-11-05  9:56               ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2009-11-07 22:22                 ` Thomas Fjellstrom
2009-11-08  8:29               ` Dave Chinner
2009-11-08 16:49                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-11-09  9:42                   ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2009-10-10  3:26 ` ext4 filesystem corruption Maxim Levitsky

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