reiserfs: problem with xattrs

reiserfs: problem with xattrs

[Jiri Olsa]

hi,

I hit a BUG in the reiserfs when halting my system,
there was nothing in /var/log/messages after next startup
but I took a photo of the screen, myabe it can help..

http://people.redhat.com/jolsa/reiserfs.zip

sry for the quality, it's a cell phone camera ;)

I'm using Fedora kernel 2.6.33.5-124.fc13.x86_64

wbr,
jirka

Re: reiserfs: problem with xattrs

[Jeff Mahoney]

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On 07/07/2010 01:47 PM, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> hi,
> 
> I hit a BUG in the reiserfs when halting my system,
> there was nothing in /var/log/messages after next startup
> but I took a photo of the screen, myabe it can help..
> 
> http://people.redhat.com/jolsa/reiserfs.zip
> 
> sry for the quality, it's a cell phone camera ;)
> 
> I'm using Fedora kernel 2.6.33.5-124.fc13.x86_64

This is a race between xattr shutdown and inode invalidation. I'm not
sure how yet, but it seems to have been fixed upstream. I can't
reproduce it with 2.6.34 or 2.6.35 but can easily with 2.6.32.

- -Jeff

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Jeff Mahoney
SUSE Labs
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