From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030721AbXCSWHG (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Mar 2007 18:07:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030726AbXCSWHE (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Mar 2007 18:07:04 -0400 Received: from hancock.steeleye.com ([71.30.118.248]:38272 "EHLO hancock.sc.steeleye.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030721AbXCSWHA (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Mar 2007 18:07:00 -0400 Subject: Re: 2.6.20.3: kernel BUG at mm/slab.c:597 try#2 From: James Bottomley To: Gene Heskett Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Mike Christie , Andreas Steinmetz , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org In-Reply-To: <200703191747.48826.gene.heskett@gmail.com> References: <45FDDA8E.8030100@domdv.de> <45FECD45.20705@cs.wisc.edu> <1174328987.3512.37.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> <200703191747.48826.gene.heskett@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 17:06:57 -0500 Message-Id: <1174342017.3512.58.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.3 (2.8.3-1.fc6) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 17:47 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > James, could this also be the cause of a tar based backup going crazy and > thinking all data is new under any 2.6.21-rc* kernel I've tested so far > with amanda, which in my case uses tar? I've tried the fedora patched > tar-1.15-1, and one I hand built right after 1.15-1 came out over a year > ago, and they both do it, but only when booted to a 2.6.21-rc* kernel. > > This obviously will be a show-stopper, either for amanda (and by > inference, any app that uses tar), or for the migration of an amanda > users machinery to a 2.6.21 kernel. Er, I don't think so .. that sounds like mtime miscompare, which is either a problem with the filesystem or a problem with the way mtime is stored in the tar archive. James