From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
To: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>,
Shawn Starr <shawn.starr@rogers.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6.32-rc4] + EXT4 corruption
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:33:24 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AD481A4.6040706@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091013022301.GC2606@mit.edu>
Theodore Tso wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:07:49PM -0400, Shawn Starr wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I somehow managed to corrupt some of my filesystem.
>>
>> What I did was this:
>>
>> in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf (Kubuntu)
>>
>> I added:
>>
>> install snd-aloop /sbin/modprobe snd-aloop
>>
>> Saved it, then ran, modprobe snd-aloop, the system started spawning
>> many copies of modprobe, then machine started going though a swap
>> storm, could not reboot safely, hit power button on laptop. When the
>> system came back up, EXT4 greeted me with severe errors on some
>> opened files. It did repair filesystem however. It corrupted some
>> configuration files that were open at the time of the shutdown.
>>
>> I'm guessing no matter how much you attempt to replay a journal you
>> still can get corruption such as this?
>
> You shouldn't get any file system corruption after replaying a
> journal. I'm trying to get an easily reproducible test case for this.
> Can you give me more information about where your root filesystem is
> located. Is it using LVM? dm-crypt? Can you reliably reproducible
> the file system corruption?
I triggered what might have been the same bug awhile ago on 2.6.32-rc2
or so (with your patch to fix a writepages OOPS applied, I think). I
crashed my system by doing something dumb with the i915 driver, and,
after power cycling, I had all kinds of corrupt inodes. e2fsck fixed it
just fine and only lost /etc/ld.so.cache.
This was LVM over dm-crypt on a partition on AHCI on a real (non-SSD)
hard disk.
--Andy
>
> - Ted
>
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-13 13:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-13 2:07 [2.6.32-rc4] + EXT4 corruption Shawn Starr
2009-10-13 2:23 ` Theodore Tso
2009-10-13 13:33 ` Andy Lutomirski [this message]
2009-10-13 20:20 ` Shawn Starr
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