From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263665AbUE1Qps (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 May 2004 12:45:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263702AbUE1Qps (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 May 2004 12:45:48 -0400 Received: from louise.pinerecords.com ([213.168.176.16]:38530 "EHLO louise.pinerecords.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263665AbUE1Qpr (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 May 2004 12:45:47 -0400 Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 18:45:44 +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: <20040528164544.GF422@louise.pinerecords.com> References: <20040528122854.GA23491@clipper.ens.fr> <1085748363.22636.3102.camel@watt.suse.com> <20040528162450.GE422@louise.pinerecords.com> <1085761753.22636.3329.camel@watt.suse.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1085761753.22636.3329.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, 12:29 -0400 Chris Mason wrote: > On Fri, 2004-05-28 at 12:24, Tomas Szepe wrote: > > 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? > > No, if you slept in the right spot you could hit it on UP. Uh oh. Any idea about when the bug was introduced? -- Tomas Szepe