Re: 2.6.20.3: kernel BUG at mm/slab.c:597 try#2

James Bottomley
2007-03-19T22:07:06Z

On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 17:47 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> James, could this also be the cause of a tar based backup going crazy and
> thinking all data is new under any 2.6.21-rc* kernel I've tested so far
> with amanda, which in my case uses tar? I've tried the fedora patched
> tar-1.15-1, and one I hand built right after 1.15-1 came out over a year
> ago, and they both do it, but only when booted to a 2.6.21-rc* kernel.
>
> This obviously will be a show-stopper, either for amanda (and by
> inference, any app that uses tar), or for the migration of an amanda
> users machinery to a 2.6.21 kernel.

Er, I don't think so .. that sounds like mtime miscompare, which is
either a problem with the filesystem or a problem with the way mtime is
stored in the tar archive.

James