Re: Error testing ext3 on brd ramdisk

["Jorge Boncompte [DTI2]" <jorge@dti2.net>]

Adrian Hunter escribió:
> Hi
> 
> I am trying to test EXT3 on a ramdisk and after some number of mounts
> (anywhere from 7 to 603 so far), I get errors from e2fsck like this:
> 
> /dev/ram0: HTREE directory inode 137 has an invalid root node.
> HTREE INDEX CLEARED.
> /dev/ram0: Entry 'f1770' in /work/p0/da/d1c61 (137) has deleted/unused 
> inode 692.  CLEARED.
> /dev/ram0: Entry 'fa37' in /work/p0/da/d1c61 (137) has deleted/unused 
> inode 799.  CLEARED.
> /dev/ram0: Entry 'c1686' in /work/p0/da/d1c61 (137) has deleted/unused 
> inode 470.  CLEARED.
> /dev/ram0: Entry 'c19b8' in /work/p0/da/d1c61 (137) has an incorrect 
> filetype (was 3, should be 1).
> 
> /dev/ram0: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY.
>       (i.e., without -a or -p options)
> 
> 
> This is what I do:
> 
> 
> modprobe brd rd_nr=1 rd_size=4096
> mkfs.ext3 /dev/ram0
> dmesg -n8
> i=0
> while (true); do
>     i=`expr $i + 1`
>     echo -------------------------------------------------------------
>     echo Cycle $i
>     date
>     echo Mounting
>     sleep 1
>     mount -t ext3 /dev/ram0 /mnt/test_file_system || exit 1
>     echo Removing old fsstress data
>     rm -rf /mnt/test_file_system/work
>     mkdir /mnt/test_file_system/work || exit 1
>     echo Starting fsstress
>     fsstress -d /mnt/test_file_system/work -p 3 -l 0 -n 100000000 &
>     echo Sleeping 30 seconds
>     sleep 30
>     echo Stopping fsstress
>     while (ps -e | grep fsstress);do
>         pkill fsstress
>         sleep 1
>     done
>     echo Unmounting
>     umount /mnt/test_file_system || exit 1
>     echo Checking
>     sleep 1
>     e2fsck -fvp /dev/ram0 || exit 1
> done
> 
> 
> It seems to happen ever since the introduction of brd (Feb '08).
> 
> Does anyone know what is going on?
> 
	Hi,

	I have added Nick Piggin to the CC: as maintainer of the brd driver.

	After switching an embedded distribution that /etc on a ramdisk based 
minix filesystem from 2.6.23.17 to 2.6.29-rcX i am too getting errors 
ant the filesystem is corrupted. Does not happen always. The visible 
effect with text files after reboot is getting the old version of the 
file and "\0"'s at the end.

	Did you found a solution?

	Regards,

	Jorge
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