[PATCH] xfstests: add disk failure simulation test

Dave Chinner david at fromorbit.com
Wed Feb 13 15:32:17 CST 2013


On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 07:41:37PM +0400, Dmitry Monakhov wrote:
> BE CAREFUL!! test known to cause memory corruption for XFS
> see: https://gist.github.com/dmonakhov/4945005

Commit 9f87832 (xfs: fix shutdown hang on invalid inode during
create) might actually fix this. IIRC, it went into 3.8-rc7 so that
wouldn't have been in the kernel you were testing. Can you retest
with a more recent kernel and if it is still busted, send a bug
report to the list?

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
david at fromorbit.com



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