Re: Mild filesystem corruption on ext4 (no journal)

Alan Jenkins
2009-06-05T21:41:33Z

Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 18:43, Alan Jenkins<alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
>> If I remove the corrupted file and copy a "known good" copy into it's place,
>> then the corruption doesn't happen. I've verified this a couple of times.
>> The corruption only occurs if the file was created by "locale-gen".
>>
>
> Does it use things like: fallocate()?
>
> Kay
>

Not quite. Ted says it's already reported as

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13292

It includes an strace log which implicates the use of both mmap() and
write() on the same file. Sounds scary :-).

Alan