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Re: [ck] Re: xfs_fsr and null byte areas in files

To: "Martin Steigerwald" <Martin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [ck] Re: xfs_fsr and null byte areas in files
From: "Felix X" <01001101@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 17:45:31 +0000
Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx, ck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <200708131925.35824.Martin@lichtvoll.de>
References: <200707092313.48876.Martin@lichtvoll.de> <200707262309.24012.Martin@lichtvoll.de> <200708122229.40400.Martin@lichtvoll.de> <200708131925.35824.Martin@lichtvoll.de>
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Try my test procedure described at http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/7778
; see if you can get it to happen with that. Running that procedure on
a virtual machine with the -ck kernel version 2.6.22.1.ck1-2 got it to
happen every time.

~Felix.

On 8/13/07, Martin Steigerwald <Martin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Am Sonntag 12 August 2007 schrieb Martin Steigerwald:
>
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > I ran test 42 and it completes successfully.
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I now read a post from someone who faced null byte areas in files after
> > xfs_fsr as well[1]. And he writes that this problem is related to the
> > ck patchset:
> >
> > http://bhhdoa.org.au/pipermail/ck/2007-August/008433.html
> >
> > It may well be that it is related to the ck patchset in my case as
> > well. I did not know the exact kernel version anymore when I was using
> > xfs_fsr, since it took me 2 weeks to actually find about this
> > corruption. Well and when I ran xfsqa test I had a slighly newer kernel
> > was using the CFS scheduler instead of the ck patchset. Actually I
> > thought the other was using the CFS scheduler as well  I didn't think
> > of it as having any relevance so I didn't look into that direction.
> >
> > But now it seems that the problem actually is related ck patchset and
> > that I was using a kernel with ck patchset as well. I try to find the
> > time to run xfsqa test 42 for my latest ck patchset kernel to know for
> > sure.
>
> I ran test 42 on my last kernel with ck patchset -
> 2.6.21.3-tp42-ck2-sws2-2.2.10 -   about 20 times, but it did not show any
> problem. Maybe I have to run it about a 1000 times, since about 0,1-0.5%
> of my files were affected when it failed and as it seems to me the tests
> only generates one fragmented file. Could it generate and check more
> fragmented files in one ago without to much work?
>
> Ciao,
> --
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