ext3 corruption [LWN.net]

ext3 corruption

Posted Oct 10, 2006 0:42 UTC (Tue) by xoddam (subscriber, #2322)
In reply to: ext3 corruption by JoeBuck
Parent article: Fedora Core 6 release date pushed back

The bug is in 2.6.18 and should be fixed by the patch, but for some
reason the patch doesn't work in the presence of whatever other changes
are in the Fedora kernel, which implies it's not a correct fix.

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ext3 corruption

Posted Oct 11, 2006 5:29 UTC (Wed) by davej (subscriber, #354) [Link]

It seems to be a completely unrelated bug to the one fixed by the aforementioned patch, that only manifests when you use a filesystem with a different block size to the CPU page size. Somehow I created a filesystem with 1K blocks on my testbox instead of the default 4K.

(And yes, it affects 2.6.18 [and probably still .19rc1] too).

Work is ongoing to get to the bottom of this.