Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Linux-2.5.14.. | From | Daniel Pittman <> | Date | Thu, 09 May 2002 16:02:38 +1000 |
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On Wed, 08 May 2002, Andrew Morton wrote: > Daniel Pittman wrote: >> On Mon, 6 May 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> > On Mon, 6 May 2002, Daniel Pittman wrote: >> >> >> >> From the look of the changelog at least a few of the file >> >> corruption bugs with ext3, 2k block file systems and 2.5 have been >> >> fixed. Should I expect this release to address the problems I was >> >> seeing? >> > >> > "Expect" is too strong a word. I'd say "hope" - a number of >> > truncate bugs were fixed, but whether that was what bit you, nobody >> > knows. >> > >> > I suspect the real answer is that we'd love for you to test things >> > out, but that if it ends up being too painful to recover if the >> > problems happen again, you probably shouldn't.. >> >> Right. I got brave enough to test it on a real, live system after >> extensive fake testing. It seems to work well, at least so far as >> running the same workload that cause massive file corruption >> correctly. > > hmm.
Not conclusive, I know, but getting a panic after a brief test stopped it at that point. :)
>> So, I believe that 2.5.14 is working correctly with 2k ext3 >> filesystems, at least for minimal use. I didn't do any sort of >> extreme load testing or anything like that, being cautious about it. > > I've been testing 2.5.14 pretty hard for a couple of days.
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> ext3-journalled is not happy.
Which probably explains my error, then, as I have not stepped back from data journaled mode on my system.
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> There's a known race between unmount and writeback which is probably > impossible to trigger. (see the FIXME at __sync_list). Testing the > fix for that at present.
Well, unmount wouldn't have happened for quite a long time in the shutdown process, given it was at the initial 'send SIGTERM' stage...
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> So unless you're a JFS or ext3-journalled user, 2.5.14 is OK.
The latter. Ah, well, at least you know.
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> 04 60 -> line 1120. Yup, I get that one too. I assume you were > testing with data=journal.
Confirmed. Daniel
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