Re: [reiserfs-list] Re: Apparent instability of reiserfs on 2.4.1

Hans Reiser
2001-02-12T21:15:44Z

Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
>
> On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Chris Mason wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > On Sunday, February 11, 2001 10:00:11 AM +0300 Hans Reiser
> > <reiser@namesys.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Daniel Stone wrote:
> > >>
> > >> On 11 Feb 2001 02:02:00 +1300, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> > >> > On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 05:34:44PM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > >> >
> > >> > I run Reiser on all but /boot, and it seems to enjoy corrupting my
> > >> > mbox'es randomly.
> > >> >
> > >> > what kind of corruption are you seeing?
> > >>
> > >> Zeroed bytes.
> > >
> > > This sounds like the same bug as the syslog bug, please try to help Chris
> > > reproduce it.
> > >
> > > zam, if Chris can't reproduce it by Monday, please give it a try.
> > >
> >
> > I had a bunch of scripts running over the weekend to try and reproduce
> > this, but the results were ruined when a major storm killed the power (no,
> > still haven't gotten around to configuring my UPS to shut things down ;-).
> >
> > So, I'll try again.
>
> Chris,
>
> Do you know if the people reporting the corruption with reiserfs on
> 2.4 were using IDE drives with PIO mode and IDE multicount turned on?
>
> If so, it may be caused by the problem fixed by Russell King on
> 2.4.2-pre2.
>
> Without his fix, I was able to corrupt ext2 while using PIO+multicount
> very very easily.

Was the bug you describe also present in the 2.2.* series? If not, then the
bugs are not the same.

Hans
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