Bug#569598: disk caches?

2010-02-16 Thread Philipp Weis
On 2010-02-16 11:21, Christoph Hellwig h...@lst.de wrote: Do you have disk write caches disabled on the machine? Neither md, nor dm, nor loop pass through barrier requests. Without disabling the volatile write cache on the disks you will lose data everytime the machine is not shut down

Bug#569598: disk caches?

2010-02-16 Thread Philipp Weis
Hi, On 2010-02-16 20:18, Christoph Hellwig h...@lst.de wrote: Hmm, it really does look like the typical write cache corruption. Looking a bit at the loop driver as suspsect I think I know what the problem is: - loop writes data either using the address_space operations, or using

Bug#569598: disk caches?

2010-02-16 Thread Philipp Weis
On 2010-02-16 23:12, Christoph Hellwig h...@lst.de wrote: On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 03:42:25PM -0500, Philipp Weis wrote: How could it end up in the page cache for this setup? There is no filesystem layer below the loop device. Any write that reaches the loop device is passed through to lvm

Bug#569598: XFS corruption

2010-02-15 Thread Philipp Weis
On 2010-02-16 01:54, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: I notice you set CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY. The kernel image packages of 2.6.26 all use CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE due to concern about the stability of preemption. (This has been changed for more recent versions.) So it may be worth

Bug#569598: XFS corruption

2010-02-14 Thread Philipp Weis
On 2010-02-14 19:39, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote: On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 14:35 -0500, Philipp Weis wrote: Package: linux-source-2.6.26 Version: 2.6.26-21 Severity: normal Since you are using a custom kernel, please send the build config you used. Attached. I just

Bug#569598: XFS corruption

2010-02-12 Thread Philipp Weis
Package: linux-source-2.6.26 Version: 2.6.26-21 Severity: normal Hi, I just experienced an XFS corruption on one of my machines during a remote run of rdiff-backup. No indications of I/O errors or hardware problems. The XFS volume runs on top of a encrypted loop-aes device, on top of lvm, on top

Bug#556607: linux-source-2.6.31: All created packages have a svn14611 suffix.

2009-11-16 Thread Philipp Weis
12.025 A utility for building Linux kerne ii libncurses5-dev [ncurses- 5.7+20090803-2 developer's libraries and docs for pn libqt3-mt-dev none (no description available) -- no debconf information -- Philipp Weis signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: kernel 2.6.11 and tg3 broadcom

2005-04-06 Thread Philipp Weis
worked perfectly for me. And as far as I know, the firmware is in fact not needed at all in most cases. So why not keep a stripped down version in main? -- Philipp Weis[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://pweis.com/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#301613: kernel-source-2.6.11: NEWS.Debian missing

2005-04-03 Thread Philipp Weis
reopen 301613 thanks On 31 Mar 2005, Horms [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 01:19:18AM -0500, Philipp Weis wrote: Package: kernel-source-2.6.11 Version: 2.6.11-1 Severity: normal I was quite surprised to see that Broadcom tg3 card is no longer supported in 2.6.11. I

Bug#301613: kernel-source-2.6.11: NEWS.Debian missing

2005-03-26 Thread Philipp Weis
The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii bzip2 1.0.2-5high-quality block-sorting file co ii coreutils [fileutils] 5.2.1-2The GNU core utilities ii fileutils 5.2.1-2The GNU file management utilities -- no debconf information -- Philipp