Sakari Ailus wrote: > Hi, > > I have more or less random crashes and data corruption happening here on > 2.6.31 guests. Host is also 2.6.31 with skas3 patch by Stephan Bärwolf. > Just creating a simple tarball of about half a gigabyte usually triggers > the problem at least once. I have NOT been able to reproduce this on the > host side so I assume (still) my host with ECC memory is doing fine. > > So what I've done is just this: > > --- > $ cd /tmp/ > $ tar cf usr.tar /usr > $ tar tf usr.tar 2> /dev/null > tar: Skipping to next header > tar: Skipping to next header > tar: Skipping to next header > tar: Skipping to next header > tar: Skipping to next header > tar: Skipping to next header > ... > --- > > I've yet to investigate this further and I wonder if anyone else has had > similar experiences. The file system is fine; I tested this on two > guests using reiserfs and ext3fs.
Replying to myself, I can now state that this seems not to be reproducible with 2.6.27 guest either, the host is still 2.6.31. Looks like it broke somewhere in between. It'd be nice if someone could try reproducing the problem, this looks quite serious. Regards, -- Sakari Ailus sakari.ai...@saunalahti.fi ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-user mailing list User-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-user
