Re: ext3 bug

[jmerkey <jmerkey@utah-nac.org>]

jmerkey wrote:

> Jean-Marc Valin wrote:
>
>> Le lundi 28 février 2005 à 08:31 -0700, jmerkey a écrit :
>>  
>>
>>> I see this problem infrequently on systems that have low memory 
>>> conditions and
>>> with heavy swapping.    I have not seen it on 2.6.9 but I have seen 
>>> it on 2.6.10.   
>>
>>
>> My machine has 1 GB RAM and I wasn't using much of it at that time (2GB
>> free on the swap), so I doubt that's the problem in my case.
>>
>>     Jean-Marc
>>
>>  
>>
> Running the ext2 recover program seems to trigger some good bugs in 
> 2.6.10 with ext3 -- try it.  I was doing this
> to test some disk tools and I managed to cause these errors with 
> forcing ext2 recovery from an ext3 fs (which is
> probably something to be expected.  The recover tools need to get 
> syncrhonized -- have not tried with
> mc yet.)    Doesn't happen every time though.
>
> Jeff
>
>
>

lde also causes some problems as well with ext3.  Just caused one on 
2.6.10.  stale or poisoned
cache blocks perhaps?

Jeff