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SubjectRe: Fwd: EXT3 File System Corruption 2.6.34
Jeffrey Merkey wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Jeffrey Merkey <jeffmerkey@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 7:55 PM
> Subject: Re: EXT3 File System Corruption 2.6.34
> To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
>
>
>> On Jun 7, 2010, at 6:55 PM, Jeffrey Merkey <jeffmerkey@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: Jeffrey Merkey <jeffmerkey@gmail.com>
>>> Date: Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 5:54 PM
>>> Subject: Re: EXT3 File System Corruption 2.6.34
>>> To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
>>>
>>>
>>> REPLY TO ALL
>>>
>>> CONFIG_EXT3_DEFAULTS_TO_ORDERED is not set
>>>
>>> Whether set this way or not, should not see corruption.
>> Here you are mistaken. Mount with data=ordered and see. Writeback can
>> expose stale data.
>>
>> -Eric
>>
>
> OK. I will set this up. You may want to make this option the default
> in the build scripts. here is a corrupted file. This was a .gif
> image file I saved THEN AFTER SAVING THE FILE I pulled the power to
> the machine and during recovery the file was FUCKED. At any rate,
> this does not happen with 2.6.28.
>
Having bad things happen when power is removed is not much of a surprise, and
various options can fix that at the cost of speed. The fact that this didn't
happen with 2.6.28 is bothersome.

I actually take some care to avoid testing behavior in this area, not my normal
intended mode of operation.

--
Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
"We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot


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