From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261585AbULFRXy (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Dec 2004 12:23:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261583AbULFRXy (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Dec 2004 12:23:54 -0500 Received: from enterprise.bidmc.harvard.edu ([134.174.118.50]:49328 "EHLO enterprise.bidmc.harvard.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261584AbULFRXc (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Dec 2004 12:23:32 -0500 Message-ID: <41B4958B.7050605@enterprise.bidmc.harvard.edu> Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 12:23:23 -0500 From: "Kristofer T. Karas" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040919 X-Accept-Language: en-GB, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Kernel Mailing List Subject: FS Corruption [Re: Linux 2.6.10-rc3] References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Linus Torvalds wrote: >Ok, it's out there in all the normal places, and here's the shortlog for >the thing. > Hi Linus - I'm seeing filesystem corruption (on ext3 anyway) with -rc3; there is no such corruption on -rc2. It would be better if somebody with a clue reported this; but since I haven't seen anything, I thought I'd hollar before somebody loses work as a result. (Everybody does real work on -rc kernels, don't they? :-) I untarred a kernel tarball into a directory, renamed it "foo", reboot (to clear disk cache), and then did this: pinhead:/usr/src/kernels# rm -r foo & [1] 3268 pinhead:/usr/src/kernels# tar xzf linux-2.6.9.tar.gz rm: cannot remove `foo/include/asm-ppc/linkage.h': No such file or directory rm: cannot remove `foo/include/asm-x86_64/rtc.h': No such file or directory rm: cannot remove `foo/include/asm-m68knommu/mcftimer.h': No such file or directory rm: cannot remove `foo/include/asm-m68k/linkage.h': No such file or directory rm: cannot remove `foo/include/asm-sparc64/rwsem.h': No such file or directory rm: cannot remove `foo/include/asm-sparc/psr.h': No such file or directory [1]+ Exit 1 rm -r foo pinhead:/usr/src/kernels# Running e2fsck on the next boot reports I've got a damaged filesystem. System is a generic PC (a Dell GX110) - I810 chipset, PIII, IDE. Untainted vanilla kernel. Other config details upon request. Kris