Hi Linus & Alexander
It seems that we were all wrong in assuming that ext2 was fixed
wrt. filesystem corruption. test10pre3 once again has the potential
to eat files (not sure about earlier versions).
I finally managed to capture an oops (by hand), so bear with me that
I didn't typo anywhere.
Hi,
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Udo A. Steinberg wrote:
>
> It seems that we were all wrong in assuming that ext2 was fixed
> wrt. filesystem corruption. test10pre3 once again has the potential
> to eat files (not sure about earlier versions).
>
> I finally managed to capture an oops (by hand), so be
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Udo A. Steinberg wrote:
> Kernel bug at ll_rw_blk.c: 713!
unmapped buffer got to the ll_rw_block()
> Trace; c0184d53
> Trace; c012fa31
What? OK, so we got a unmapped bh hashed at some point.
Either it was inserted into hash while it was unmapped or it had been
hashe
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> and the above is a perfectly fine backtrace, makes tons of sense, looks
> good.
Except the strange beast between ext2_create() and ext2_new_inode().
> HOWEVER. What doesn't make any sense at all is that bread() calls getblk()
> to find the buffer,
Alexander Viro wrote:
>
>
> See another posting. More or less the same analysis. I don't see
> where it came from and it smells funny - looks like a loss of ->b_count
> _or_ an active page returned by alloc_page() (to grow_buffers()). I
> wouldn't exclude the latter, BTW, but then I'm st
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Alexander Viro wrote:
>
> > Trace; c014efde
> > Trace; c014f240
> > Trace; c014f6af
> > Trace; c021e87e
> Huh?
> > Trace; c01523af
>
> The rest of trace is OK, but WTF is net/unix/*.c code is doing here?
The traces always (or almost always) have crud in them - it's n
Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Alexander Viro wrote:
> >
> > > Trace; c014efde
> > > Trace; c014f240
> > > Trace; c014f6af
> > > Trace; c021e87e
> > Huh?
> > > Trace; c01523af
> >
> > The rest of trace is OK, but WTF is net/unix/*.c code is doing here?
>
> The traces always
Sorry for this off-topic post, but,
I'm getting this email way too many times. I now have 5 copies of the email
from Alexander Viro (in response to Linus).
Is anyone else facing the same problem?
Is vger messed up again?
Cheers,
-Sudhi.
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