ext3 corruption
ext3 corruption
Posted Oct 9, 2006 16:15 UTC (Mon) by zdzichu (subscriber, #17118)In reply to: ext3 corruption by jwb
Parent article: Fedora Core 6 release date pushed back
Probably yes. Just in time, when SUSE thinks about switching to ext3...
Posted Oct 9, 2006 18:41 UTC (Mon)
by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330)
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Posted Oct 10, 2006 0:42 UTC (Tue)
by xoddam (guest, #2322)
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Posted Oct 11, 2006 5:29 UTC (Wed)
by davej (subscriber, #354)
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(And yes, it affects 2.6.18 [and probably still .19rc1] too).
Work is ongoing to get to the bottom of this.
It's not clear whether he's saying the bug is in .18 or in the patch that is queued for .18.1.
ext3 corruption
The bug is in 2.6.18 and should be fixed by the patch, but for some ext3 corruption
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.
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.ext3 corruption