Re: filesystem bug?

[Tsuchiya Yoshihiro <tsuchiya@labs.fujitsu.com>]

Tsuchiya Yoshihiro wrote:

>>It could possibly be a core VFS bug, but the VFS is in general pretty
>>reliable under load.  We've had problems under specific edge conditions
>>such as races between sync and unmount, but the basic VFS behaviour
>>under load generally gets _lots_ of testing, so I'd definitely start by
>>looking elsewhere.  
>>
>>I'd also like to see how your 2.4.23 and 2.6.0-test11 testing is going. 
>>That might give some clues, too.  There's a race between clear_inode()
>>and read_inode() fixed in those kernels, but that doesn't look relevant
>>here; there may be something else changed that's significant, though.
>>
>> 
>>
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>EXT3 on 2.4.23 and 2.6.0-test11 both failed. I feel when I make the
>filesystem
>smaller - make the filesystem usage 70% to 80% during the test- ,
>the problem happens easyer.
>
>  
>

I tried it with IDE disk and it failed also. It was run on
ext2 on 2.4.23. So it's not a SCSI problem.


Thanks,
Yoshi

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Yoshihiro Tsuchiya