Re: [dm-devel] hunt for 2.6.37 dm-crypt+ext4 corruption?

2010-12-05 Thread Theodore Tso
On Dec 5, 2010, at 5:21 AM, Milan Broz wrote: Which kernel? 2.6.37-rc? Anyone seen this with 2.6.36 and the same dmcrypt patch? (All info I had is that is is stable with here.) It still seems to like dmcrypt with its parallel processing is just trigger to another bug in 37-rc. I've

Re: [dm-devel] hunt for 2.6.37 dm-crypt+ext4 corruption?

2010-12-05 Thread Matt
On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Theodore Tso ty...@mit.edu wrote: On Dec 5, 2010, at 5:21 AM, Milan Broz wrote: Which kernel? 2.6.37-rc? Anyone seen this with 2.6.36 and the same dmcrypt patch? (All info I had is that is is stable with here.) It still seems to like dmcrypt with its

Re: [dm-devel] hunt for 2.6.37 dm-crypt+ext4 corruption?

2010-12-05 Thread Ted Ts'o
On Sun, Dec 05, 2010 at 02:44:14PM +0100, Matt wrote: gcc version 4.5.1 (Gentoo Hardened 4.5.1-r1 p1.4, pie-0.4.5) This is probably just me being paranoid, but it might be worth trying using a gcc 4.4.x compiler and see if that makes any difference. There have been some other gcc 4.5-caused

Re: [dm-devel] hunt for 2.6.37 dm-crypt+ext4 corruption?

2010-12-05 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 05.12.2010, Theodore Tso wrote: As another thought, what version of GCC are people using who are having difficulty? Could this perhaps be a compiler-related issue? h...@liesel:~ gcc -v Using built-in specs. Target: x86_64-suse-linux Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr

Re: [dm-devel] hunt for 2.6.37 dm-crypt+ext4 corruption?

2010-12-05 Thread Daniel J Blueman
Hi Heinz, On 5 December 2010 14:33, Heinz Diehl h...@fritha.org wrote: On 05.12.2010, Theodore Tso wrote: As another thought, what version of GCC are people using who are having difficulty? Could this perhaps be a compiler-related issue? h...@liesel:~ gcc -v Using built-in specs. Target:

Re: [dm-devel] hunt for 2.6.37 dm-crypt+ext4 corruption?

2010-12-05 Thread Andi Kleen
I've been using a kernel which is between 2.6.37-rc2 and -rc3 with a LUKS / dm-crypt / LVM / ext4 setup for my primary file systems, and I haven't observed any corruption for the last two weeks or so. It's on my todo list to upgrade to top of Linus's tree, but perhaps this is a useful

Re: [dm-devel] hunt for 2.6.37 dm-crypt+ext4 corruption?

2010-12-05 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 08:24:32 EST, Theodore Tso said: I've been using a kernel which is between 2.6.37-rc2 and -rc3 with a LUKS / dm-crypt / LVM / ext4 setup for my primary file systems, and I haven't observed any corruption for the last two weeks or so. Pretty much exactly the same setup

Re: [dm-devel] hunt for 2.6.37 dm-crypt+ext4 corruption?

2010-12-05 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 06.12.2010, Daniel J Blueman wrote: A bit late to the party, but does memtest86 pass over multiple iterations? Yes, it does. This machine had not a single fault in several years, it's absolutely rock-stable. These freezes/corruptions are the first ones ever, and they vanish when I go down