From: Bob Sullivan <bobsullivan60@yahoo.com>
To: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: file corruption in loop device in 3.4.0
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 07:24:40 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1338992680.29947.YahooMailNeo@web122006.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> (raw)
We have a EXT3 filesystem contained in a file
(a disk image mapped to a file using loop device).
Using diff, observed random differences between
files on the image and a backup copies of those files.
This problem is reproducible,
tried booting several times with 3.3.8 and 3.4.0.
No problems on 3.3.8.
But every time on 3.4.0, randomly a few files showed corruption.
Some files that were corrupt become ok again after rebooting/remounting.
About 5% of the file contents was garbage, rest was correct, the file size was correct.
Seems to be a memory problem in 3.4.0?
chkdsk never showed any problem (in the disk image file).
Using Debian 6. Ran memtest86+, chkdsk, badblocks -- no errors.
Disk image was created mkfs.ext3 with the smallest inode/block size.
next reply other threads:[~2012-06-06 14:29 UTC|newest]
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2012-06-06 14:24 Bob Sullivan [this message]
2012-06-06 14:48 ` Ming Lei
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