From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758468AbZJMCIk (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:08:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755714AbZJMCIk (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:08:40 -0400 Received: from smtp113.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com ([68.142.225.229]:46885 "HELO smtp113.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752996AbZJMCIj (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:08:39 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=rogers.com; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:From:To:Subject:Date:User-Agent:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-Id; b=vbslAWLtzRraX7wAbhEGuC6ZHRSP+4B2cgHb3Kd7Wc69dyUO3SDYUK4HLsRVOCW5l32saWrrsfrmDhDztg5tqsz+oFfL70BFA+QoK6nfo1jDpXeVX+U1qTodKdn9nTPQ/MRmBOMWQq16SvyfFXFqPken77K1pFdjANZ/4/dF0wQ= ; X-YMail-OSG: QR6l.DMVM1mXNxgwHKkOeNO8xp6XXfqD8cXbiYwdwLbwhaeuGPopEA8BEXcmp1FlRQ-- X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 From: Shawn Starr To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [2.6.32-rc4] + EXT4 corruption Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:07:49 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.90 (Linux/2.6.32-rc4-custom; KDE/4.3.69; x86_64; svn-1027797; 2009-09-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200910122207.50140.shawn.starr@rogers.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello everyone, I somehow managed to corrupt some of my filesystem. What I did was this: in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf (Kubuntu) I added: install snd-aloop /sbin/modprobe snd-aloop Saved it, then ran, modprobe snd-aloop, the system started spawning many copies of modprobe, then machine started going though a swap storm, could not reboot safely, hit power button on laptop. When the system came back up, EXT4 greeted me with severe errors on some opened files. It did repair filesystem however. It corrupted some configuration files that were open at the time of the shutdown. I'm guessing no matter how much you attempt to replay a journal you still can get corruption such as this? Thanks, Shawn.