From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755977AbYJPOi4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:38:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754002AbYJPOiq (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:38:46 -0400 Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:58560 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753893AbYJPOip (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:38:45 -0400 Message-ID: <48F751E9.8070705@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 09:38:33 -0500 From: Eric Sandeen User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (X11/20080723) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pascal Terjan CC: Andrey Borzenkov , pterjan@mandriva.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Possible ext3 corruption with 1K block size References: <200810150724.42180.arvidjaar@mail.ru> <48F5E6D4.8080603@redhat.com> <200810151824.36119.arvidjaar@mail.ru> <48F601A5.1050405@redhat.com> <1224164860.11578.14.camel@plop> In-Reply-To: <1224164860.11578.14.camel@plop> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Pascal Terjan wrote: > Le mercredi 15 octobre 2008 à 09:43 -0500, Eric Sandeen a écrit : >> Andrey Borzenkov wrote: >>> On Wednesday 15 October 2008, Eric Sandeen wrote: >> >>>> My kingdom for a testcase... does anyone have simple steps to reproduce >>>> this? Or do they all start with "install mandriva on a 1k block size >>>> system?" :) >>>> >>> May be RH will do? :) >> I did try a 1k-block root fs Fedora install, and didn't see any problems... >> >>> As indicated by last comment, Pascal has some ways to trigger it; I >>> forgot to Cc to him initially; doing it now. >> Ok, good deal. >> > > On my test machine I reproduce it easily : rpm --rebuilddb and if the db > is not detected to be corrupted yet it will be after installing a few > packages (tested again with 2.6.27). > > If I do the rebuilddb on a 2.6.17 and then reboot on a recent kernel, > then I can install/uninstall thousands of packages without any > corruption. so it seems to be the database rebuilding, under a recent kernel, which causes the problem? installing under a recent kernel is ok, as long as the db was created on an older kernel? Ok that's a good clue... -Eric