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On 2/9/07, J. Scott Kasten <jscottkasten@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Alex, thanks. I read through it in detail. That finally triggered my |
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> memory. There were multiple issues that affected 2.6.12 - 2.6.14. |
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> In your case, it probably wasn't JFS specifically, but most likely an |
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> interaction between JFS and the LVM layer. I never tried that feature. |
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> This affected 2.6.12 and 2.6.13 |
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> http://www.arcknowledge.com/gmane.comp.file-systems.jfs.general/2005-10/msg00020.html |
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> Here is also an interesting LWN article about the 4k page issue that came |
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> out at the same time and how it affected device_mapper, LVM and such |
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> things. (See the second section.) |
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> http://lwn.net/Articles/149977/ |
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> Here's a complaint about 2.6.13 and 2.6.14 on AMD with ext3. This is just |
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> an example of other complaints that were comming in. |
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> http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/09/27/62 |
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> In short, there were multiple sources of corruption at that time and you |
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> could have been bitten by any of them. Hopefully things are more settled |
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> now, but I certainly will watch out for any issues. |
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Thanks for the update! those indeed look like they may have been the |
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cause of my problems. Too bad I can't test that set up again to see |
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if it works today. |
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Alex |
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> -S- |
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> On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Alex Deucher wrote: |
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> > On 2/9/07, J. Scott Kasten <jscottkasten@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> >> I'm interested in your data point. Do you happen to remember about which |
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> >> kernel that was? There was some general badness that affected multiple |
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> >> file systems in late 2.6.13 on into 2.6.14 or so in the way that you |
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> >> describe. Not sure they ever really knew what the smoking gun was. |
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> > http: //sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=7852301&forum_id=43911 |
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> > http: //www.mail-archive.com/sparclinux@×××××××××××.org/msg00333.html |
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> > Alex |
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