On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 05:21:31PM +0100, Jean-Marc Saffroy wrote: > For an embedded system, I'm currently evaluating the robustness of ufs2 > write support on Linux, and my very first test, with fsx, shows serious > problems. > > My test bed is a single CPU PC with a single IDE disk, that boots FreeBSD > 6.2 and Ubuntu 7.10. The kernel on Ubuntu is a vanilla 2.6.23.9 with UFS2 > write support. fsx is from the freebsd cvs (with a small patch to build on > Linux, see after my sig): > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/tools/regression/fsx/ >
I used fsx-linux.c from ext3-tools project, but ran it with different options. > > Can anyone else confirm this problem? > Using your options I am able to reproduce this bug. Looks like problem in ufs_alloc_lastblock, last page in file contains zeros, but because of ufs_readpage, it can be contains garbage. I will look at next week how it can be fixed. -- /Evgeniy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
