From: Ville Herva <v@iki.fi>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.35 SMP: ext3_readdir: bad entry in directory #323888: rec_len is smaller than minimal
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 19:33:26 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070918163326.GT29062@vianova.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070918162256.GA3280@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 06:22:56PM +0200, you [Jan Kara] wrote:
> > Sorry for the sparse details, but when you have these kind of problems on
> > live servers, you tend to forget the debuggability...
> Yes, I can understand that :). It's just that now it's hard to find
> out what has really happened. Anyway, thanks for your report.
If we are really lucky or unlucky it will happen again.
Zeroed-out block just might be a kernel problem (SMP race, whatever) -
random corruption would more likely be a hardware problem. There were no IO
error either. But, 2.4 ext3 has been pretty extensively tested, so I don't
suppose that's likely either. And judging from
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/ChangeLog-2.4.3[45] there
haven't been many changes to ext3 lately either.
-- v --
v@iki.fi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-18 16:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-18 12:23 Ville Herva
2007-09-18 15:12 ` Jan Kara
2007-09-18 16:09 ` Ville Herva
2007-09-18 16:22 ` Jan Kara
2007-09-18 16:33 ` Ville Herva [this message]
2007-09-18 21:47 ` Willy Tarreau
2007-09-20 12:45 ` Ville Herva
2007-09-20 13:20 ` Willy Tarreau
2007-09-20 13:25 ` Ville Herva
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