From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 2 May 2002 15:22:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 2 May 2002 15:22:39 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:65293 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 2 May 2002 15:22:35 -0400 Message-ID: <3CD191C5.AC09B1F4@zip.com.au> Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 12:21:41 -0700 From: Andrew Morton X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.19-pre4 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Pittman CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.5.12 severe ext3 filesystem corruption warning! In-Reply-To: <87u1pqln4h.fsf@enki.rimspace.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Daniel Pittman wrote: > > I gave the 2.5.12 kernel a shot on my workstation tonight and found an > *extremely* serious ext3 filesystem corrupting behavior. A few things.. Are your other filesystems using journalled data as well? Are you sure that all kernel files were recompiled? If, for example, you had some 2.5.11 objects in the link, that would be bad. Do you know whether the bad data is actually on-disk, or could it be just in-RAM? ie: was the data still bad after a reboot? What blocksize is that filesystem using? The output of `dumpe2fs -h /dev/whatever' will tell you this. Can you please force an fsck against that filesystem, see what it says? Thanks. -