Re: [Fwd: reiser4 bugs in 2.6.21-rc4]

Re: [Fwd: reiser4 bugs in 2.6.21-rc4]

[Edward Shishkin]

Ignatich wrote:

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> Subject:
> reiser4 bugs in 2.6.21-rc4
> From:
> Ignatich <ignatich@gmail.com>
> Date:
> Tue, 27 Mar 2007 23:29:18 +0400
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> There are two bugs I found in current -mm reiser4 code.
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> 1. Some files seem to be zeroed out randomly. Usually it's 
> /lib/security/pam_limits.so and /lib/security/pam_deny.so. As 
> fsck.reiser4 didn't find anything wrong I decided to create clean 
> installation in vmware and see if this bug appears on newly formatted 
> partition. It did.
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> 2. Sometimes I get oppses in reiser4_do_readpage_extent. Assert codes 
> are vs-1426 and nikita-2688. A patch was posted on namesys list to 
> address this problem, but it didn't help.
>
> Kernel: 2.6.21-rc4 with manually applied reiser4 patches from -mm. 
> Arch: x86-64
>

We are working on this.
Thanks for reports,

Edward.