From: rwhron@earthlink.net
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
Cc: rwhron@earthlink.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
ltp-list@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: fsync02 test hangs 2.5.1-pre3 + patch
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 00:18:59 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011129001859.B17852@earthlink.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011128220329.A2718@earthlink.net> <Pine.GSO.4.21.0111282303190.9271-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0111282303190.9271-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>; from viro@math.psu.edu on Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 11:12:22PM -0500
On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 11:12:22PM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote:
> > This was on a reiserfs system, btw.
>
> Obvious tests:
> a) 2.5.1-pre2
2.5.1-pre2 was fine.
> b) 2.5.1-pre2 + fs/super.c from 2.5.1-pre3
> c) 2.5.1-pre3 + fs/super.c from 2.5.1-pre2
> (fs/super.c changes are independent from everything else).
I'll try option c and let you know what happens.
> Another possibility is silent fs corruption from 2.5.0/2.4.15 - if you
> ran these kernels you really ought to do fsck -f (or whatever is used
> to force recovery of reiserfs).
I did have some nasty errors while running dbench around those kernel versions.
To be safe, I did a cpio backup and re-mkreiserfs'd three filesystems with 2.4.16.
The filesystem that fsync02 hung on was one of the recently rebuilt filesystems.
--
Randy Hron
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-29 6:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-29 2:24 rwhron
2001-11-29 2:32 ` Alexander Viro
2001-11-29 3:03 ` rwhron
2001-11-29 4:12 ` Alexander Viro
2001-11-29 5:18 ` rwhron [this message]
2001-11-29 5:48 ` rwhron
2001-11-29 6:04 ` Alexander Viro
2001-11-29 7:05 ` Jens Axboe
2001-11-29 7:17 ` Alexander Viro
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