Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 29 2000, Steve Lord wrote:
> > Looks like the corruption is once again coming out of the clustering write
> > code in pagebuf, I would recommend not using the kiocluster mount option
> > at the moment. I am doing a glibc build with Ananth's change back in again
> > and put it back into the tree if the build works OK.
>
> Aughr, this could explain some weirdness that I'm seeing on IDE kiobuf
> atm. Basically, kio and "plain" xfs works just fine and I can't crash
> it. No corruption either. But kiocluster corrupts data here too...
>
> And currently I don't see why. For IDE, the kio clustering just means
> that the same request will be started more than one time. I'll try and look
> closer at this tomorrow.
It is unclear at this point where the corruption is coming from
there is evidence that it has nothing to do with kiobuf's/ clustering.
LVM testing is also showing corruption... it doesn't use kio bufs.
-Russell.
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