Problems with kernel 3.6.x (vm ?) (was : Is kernel 3.6.1 or filestreams option toxic ?)

[Yann Dupont]

Le 30/10/2012 02:33, Dave Chinner a écrit :
>
> Not really a huge chase, just a simple matter of isolation. The
> patch below should fix the problem.

Yes, it does.
Thanks a lot for the fast answer and this one-letter-patch !


> However, the fact that recovery succeeded on 3.4 means you may have
> a corrupted filesystem. The bug has been present since 3.0-rc1
> (which was a fix for vmap memory leaks), and recovery is trying to
> replay stale items from the previous log buffer. As such, it is
> possible that changes from a previous checkpoint to have overwritten
> more recent changes in the current checkpoint. As such, you should

Ouch.

> probably run xfs_repair -n over the filesystems that you remounted
> on 3.4 that failed on 3.6 just to make sure they are OK.
Will do.

As someone else pointed out, I think it should go to stable release.
Thanks a lot for your time,
Cheers

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