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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Sander <sander@humilis.net>
Cc: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>,
	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>, Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: torrent hash failures since 3.9.0-rc1
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 09:04:52 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130312220452.GR21651@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130312082854.GA1515@panda>

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 09:28:54AM +0100, Sander wrote:
> Markus Trippelsdorf wrote (ao):
> > On 2013.03.11 at 16:37 -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> > > We actually run fsx in a number of different configruations as part of
> > > our regression testing before we send Linus a pull request, and
> > > haven't found any issues.  So unless it's a hardware problem, it seems
> > > unlikely to me that your running fsx would turn up anything.
> > 
> > Yes, I let it run for a while anyway and it didn't report any failure.
> 
> > Please note that my local rtorrent version was configured with
> > "--with-posix-fallocate".
> 
> Would it be possible to enhance fsx to detect such an issue?

fsx in xfstests already uses fallocate() for preallocation and hole
punching, so such problems related to these operations can be found
using fsx. The issue here, however, involves memory reclaim
interactions and so is not something fsx can reproduce in isolation.  :/


Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-12 22:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-11 17:18 torrent hash failures since 3.9.0-rc1 Markus Trippelsdorf
2013-03-11 19:17 ` Markus Trippelsdorf
2013-03-11 19:41   ` Dave Jones
2013-03-11 20:13     ` Markus Trippelsdorf
2013-03-11 20:37       ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-03-11 20:46         ` Markus Trippelsdorf
2013-03-11 21:18           ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-03-11 21:38             ` Markus Trippelsdorf
2013-03-11 23:12               ` Markus Trippelsdorf
2013-03-11 23:26                 ` Dave Jones
2013-03-12  3:00                 ` Zheng Liu
2013-03-12  3:30                   ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-03-12  3:44                     ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-03-12  6:16                     ` Markus Trippelsdorf
2013-03-12  6:44                       ` Zheng Liu
2013-03-12  6:48                         ` Markus Trippelsdorf
2013-03-12  7:16                           ` Zheng Liu
2013-03-12 13:28                             ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-03-13 10:15                               ` Zheng Liu
2013-03-12  8:28           ` Sander
2013-03-12 22:04             ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2013-03-11 20:44       ` Dave Jones

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