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On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 18:14 +0200, Richard Fish wrote: |
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> Jules Colding wrote: |
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> >I tried the aforementioned script just to see if that picked up |
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> >anything. Lo and behold... it segfaulted in mkdir. I am beginning to |
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> >suspect a subtle reiserfs (mounted with noatime and notail) bug as I am |
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> >only seeing segfaults with mkdir and only under high load. There was |
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> >something in /var/log/messages as well. Script, output, log and info |
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> >below. |
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> Um, what version of reiserfs are we talking about here? |
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Whatever is in gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r6. dmesg tells me that it is |
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format "3.6". |
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> I recall |
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> reading recently on lkml (or maybe it was somewhere else..) reports that |
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> reiser4 has known and serious problems on non-x86 platforms, and maybe |
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> that extends to AMD64 as well.... |
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Yes, reiser4 is not quite stable yet. |
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> If you are using the stable reiser3.6 (the only option available in the |
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> gentoo-sources or vanilla-sources), well, I would be very surprised if |
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> this was a bug there, because noatime and notail are very common options |
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> and it is a very popular filesystem. I would put my money on bad ram or |
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> memory timings in this case. |
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I would expect other things to fail too if it was bad RAM or memory |
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timings, right? The only failure scenario is mkdir under high load which |
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to me points towards s specific problem area in the code. This is just |
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an unqualified guess, naturally... |
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jules |
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