Re: ext3 filesystem corruption in user mode linux

[Chris Frey <cdfrey@foursquare.net>]

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 01:35:09AM +0200, richard -rw- weinberger wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 12:12 AM, Chris Frey <cdfrey@foursquare.net> wrote:
> > I'm using a mixture of the following to test.  The errors happen
> > during the 'rm'.
> >
> >        Direct copy:
> >                (cd dir && tar cjf - portage) | tar xjf - ; rm -rf portage
> >
> >        Hostfs copy:
> >                tar xjf /mnt/hostfs/portage-latest.tar.bz2 ; rm -rf portage
> >
> >        Network copy:
> >                ssh remote "cat portage-latest.tar.bz2" | tar xjf - ; rm -rf portage
> >
> > With these tests, I'm almost guessing that it might be some missed IRQs
> > or something in the guest, since files that are corrupt often contain
> > all zeros, which would match the sparse filesystem images I'm using.
> 
> Hmm, something really nasty is going one here.
> I can reproduce this issue using ext2, ext3 and reiserfs as UML root filesystem.
> It seems to be a block layer issue.
> Tomorrow I'll have a close look at the issue using my openSUSE setup.
> So far I've used your Gentoo image.

I've also seen the issue with a Ubuntu guest as well.  So far, I don't think
it matters what OS is in the guest.

Thanks for reproducing the error!
- Chris