From: Erik Mouw <J.A.K.Mouw@ITS.TUDelft.NL>
To: mason@suse.com
Cc: Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: reiserfs: still problems with tail conversion
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 17:37:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010225173752.A866@arthur.ubicom.tudelft.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010223221856.A24959@arthur.ubicom.tudelft.nl> <730960000.982966246@tiny> <20010223231949.D24959@arthur.ubicom.tudelft.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20010223231949.D24959@arthur.ubicom.tudelft.nl>; from J.A.K.Mouw@ITS.TUDelft.NL on Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 11:19:49PM +0100
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 11:19:49PM +0100, Erik Mouw wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 05:10:46PM -0500, Chris Mason wrote:
> > Many thanks for sending along a test program for reproducing. But, it
> > doesn't seem to reproduce the problem here, how many times did you have to
> > run it to see the null bytes? Do you remove the files between runs?
>
> I got them immediately at the first run, which more or less was what I
> expected because reiserfs ate one of my mailfolders that way (only a
> CVS log folder, so nothing special was lost). You have to remove the
> files between runs, otherwise the same blocks seem to be allocated to
> the files.
>
> I'll upgrade to linux-2.4.2 to see if it solves the problem. (was
> running 2.4.2-pre4 + your patch)
I upgraded to 2.4.2, and initially I couldn't reproduce the problem.
Besides the kernel version difference, another difference was the fact
that I did the 2.4.2. test on a freshly booted system, while the
2.4.2-pre4 test was done on a system with quite some VM pressure:
uptime a couple of days, running acroread, netscape, xemacs, couple of
gnome-terminals with large scroll back buffers (10000 lines).
John Adams told me that the data didn't hit the disk on his system and
that he had to add O_SYNC to the open()s. After I did that, I could
reproduce the problem on linux-2.4.2, with the strange results that the
bug is in *every* file with initial size >=1024 bytes.
John also told that his machine doesn't have swap, but I fail to see
why that could influence the reiserfs subsystem. Anyway, the bug seems
to appear when the data hits the disk, either by high VM pressure, or
by using O_SYNC.
Erik
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of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems,
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-02-25 16:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-02-23 21:18 reiserfs: still problems with tail conversion Erik Mouw
2001-02-23 22:10 ` Chris Mason
2001-02-23 22:19 ` Erik Mouw
2001-02-24 2:52 ` Michal Gornisiewicz
2001-02-24 4:13 ` Meino Christian Cramer
2001-02-24 8:18 ` thunder7
2001-02-24 19:27 ` Ken Moffat
2001-02-24 20:53 ` Alan Cox
2001-02-25 0:41 ` Chris Mason
2001-02-25 4:21 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2001-02-25 5:41 ` Mike Galbraith
2001-02-25 13:53 ` Alan Cox
2001-02-25 16:37 ` Erik Mouw [this message]
2001-02-25 17:32 ` Erik Mouw
2001-02-26 2:40 ` [PATCH] " Chris Mason
2001-02-26 11:07 ` Erik Mouw
2001-02-26 15:37 ` Erik Mouw
2001-02-26 22:46 ` Ken Moffat
2001-02-25 20:32 ` Chris Mason
2001-02-24 0:34 ` Oliver Teuber
[not found] ` <01022318321302.01755@flash>
2001-02-24 8:40 ` John E. Adams
2001-02-24 15:45 ` Arjan Filius
2001-02-24 16:24 ` [lkml]Re: " thunder7
2001-02-24 17:28 ` Chris Mason
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