From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263624AbUE1QZC (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 May 2004 12:25:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263656AbUE1QZC (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 May 2004 12:25:02 -0400 Received: from louise.pinerecords.com ([213.168.176.16]:31874 "EHLO louise.pinerecords.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263624AbUE1QY7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 May 2004 12:24:59 -0400 Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 18:24:50 +0200 From: Tomas Szepe To: Chris Mason Cc: David Madore , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: filesystem corruption (ReiserFS, 2.6.6): regions replaced by \000 bytes Message-ID: <20040528162450.GE422@louise.pinerecords.com> References: <20040528122854.GA23491@clipper.ens.fr> <1085748363.22636.3102.camel@watt.suse.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1085748363.22636.3102.camel@watt.suse.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On May-28 2004, Fri, 08:46 -0400 Chris Mason wrote: > > The bottom line: I've experienced file corruption, of the following > > nature: consecutive regions (all, it seems, aligned on 256-byte > > boundaries, and typically around 1kb or 2kb in length) of seemingly > > random files are replaced by null bytes. > > The good news is that we tracked this one down recently. 2.6.7-rc1 > shouldn't do this anymore. So did this only affect SMP machines? -- Tomas Szepe