Re: filesystem corruption in linus tree

[Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@xxxxxxx>]

Marc Dietrich wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> On Tuesday 26 February 2008 08:38:50 Lachlan McIlroy wrote:
> > Marc Dietrich wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > On Monday 25 February 2008 01:36:28 Barry Naujok wrote:
> > > > On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 20:58:26 +1100, Marc Dietrich
> > > >
> > > > <Marc.Dietrich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > somewhere after the release of 2.6.24 my xfs filesystem got corrupted.
> > > > > Initialy I thought it was only related to the readdir bug.
> > > > > (http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2008-02/msg00027.html) So I waited for
> > > > > the fix to go into mainline. Yesterday I tried again, but got this
> > > > > error during boot:
> <sniped>
>
> > We've had a few problems reported with XFS on 32-bit powermacs and the
> > culprit appears to be some changes to bit manipulation routines.  Could you
> > please try reverse applying the attached patches and see if the problem is
> > resolved?
> I saw, that you already pushed it into mainline - for a good reason ;-) Works 
> as expeted.
> Please also don't forget 2.6.24-stable !
The changes that caused this regression went into 2.6.25-rc1 so no need for a
2.6.24 stable fix.