On Sun, 2006-12-24 at 14:14 +0200, Andrei Popa wrote: > On Sun, 2006-12-24 at 00:57 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Sun, 24 Dec 2006 00:43:54 -0800 (PST) > > Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I now _suspect_ that we're talking about something like > > > > > > - we started a writeout. The IO is still pending, and the page was > > > marked clean and is now in the "writeback" phase. > > > - a write happens to the page, and the page gets marked dirty again. > > > Marking the page dirty also marks all the _buffers_ in the page dirty, > > > but they were actually already dirty, because the IO hasn't completed > > > yet. > > > - the IO from the _previous_ write completes, and marks the buffers > > > clean > > > again. > > > > Some things for the testers to try, please: > > > > - mount the fs with ext2 with the no-buffer-head option. That means either: > > > > grub.conf: rootfstype=ext2 rootflags=nobh > > /etc/fstab: ext2 nobh > > ierdnac ~ # mount > /dev/sda7 on / type ext2 (rw,noatime,nobh) > > I have corruption. > > > > > - mount the fs with ext3 data=writeback, nobh > > > > grub.conf: rootfstype=ext3 rootflags=nobh,data=writeback (I hope this > > works) > > /etc/fstab: ext2 data=writeback,nobh > > ierdnac ~ # mount > /dev/sda7 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime,nobh) > > ierdnac ~ # dmesg|grep EXT3 > EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with writeback data mode. > EXT3 FS on sda7, internal journal > > I don't have corruption. I tested twice. >
I also tested with ext3 ordered, nobh and I have file corruption... > > > > if that still fails we can rule out buffer_head funnies. > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
