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From: Ryan Cumming <ryan@completely.kicks-ass.org>
To: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [BK PATCH] Add ext3 indexed directory (htree) support
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 15:30:35 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200209281530.40944.ryan@completely.kicks-ass.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020928141330.GA653@think.thunk.org>

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On September 28, 2002 07:13, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> I've been able to replicate it now fairly reliably, with the attached
> shell script and 2.4.19 with the 2.4.19-2 dxdir patch.
Yes, that was what I'm using

> It appears to
> be somewhat timing dependent, as where the directory corruption occurs
> is not consistent, but I believe it is in the split code.  Since
> e2fsck -fD packs all of the directories completely, it means that any
> attempt to add a file to directory will guarantee at least one split,
> and possibly two levels of tree splits.  Since the -D option to e2fsck
> has only been relatively recently been available, I believe this is
> why it hasn't been noticed up until now in the testing; directories
> which are indexed "naturally" as they grow don't appear to trigger the
> problem, or are very, very unlikely to trigger the problem.  (One
> potential avenue for exploration is that -D option perfectly sorts all
> of the directory entries in hash order, which doesn't normally occur
> for naturally grown directories, and this may be triggering a
> fencepost error in the split code.)
Yes, running fsck -D seemed to make my loopback filesystem more brittle. I 
have triggered corruption without fsck, but it's much more difficult. That 
seems to match your description of the problem.

- -Ryan
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-09-28 22:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-25 20:03 [BK PATCH] Add ext3 indexed directory (htree) support tytso
2002-09-25 20:34 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-09-25 20:41 ` Dave Jones
2002-09-25 21:08   ` Andreas Dilger
2002-09-25 21:34   ` Theodore Ts'o
2002-09-25 22:54 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-09-25 23:29   ` Theodore Ts'o
2002-09-25 23:45     ` Ryan Cumming
2002-09-26  3:27       ` Theodore Ts'o
2002-09-26  5:23         ` Ryan Cumming
2002-09-26  5:57           ` Theodore Ts'o
2002-09-26  6:22             ` Ryan Cumming
2002-09-26 14:05               ` Theodore Ts'o
2002-09-26  6:25             ` Ryan Cumming
2002-09-26 11:25               ` Daniel Egger
2002-09-26  7:41             ` Ryan Cumming
2002-09-26 13:23               ` Theodore Ts'o
2002-09-26 15:42               ` Theodore Ts'o
2002-09-26 19:08                 ` Ryan Cumming
2002-09-26 19:51                   ` Horst von Brand
2002-09-26 19:59                     ` Ryan Cumming
2002-09-26 22:04                   ` Theodore Ts'o
2002-09-26 22:53                     ` Ryan Cumming
2002-09-26 23:57                       ` Theodore Ts'o
2002-09-27  1:00                         ` Ryan Cumming
2002-09-27  3:24                           ` Theodore Ts'o
2002-09-27  4:12                         ` Andreas Dilger
2002-09-27  7:55                           ` Ryan Cumming
2002-09-28  1:20                           ` Ryan Cumming
2002-09-28  1:46                             ` Ryan Cumming
2002-09-28 14:13                             ` Theodore Ts'o
2002-09-28 14:18                               ` Theodore Ts'o
2002-09-28 22:35                                 ` Ryan Cumming
2002-09-28 17:27                               ` [Ext2-devel] " Andreas Dilger
2002-09-28 18:43                                 ` chrisl
2002-09-28 19:45                                 ` chrisl
2002-09-28 22:30                               ` Ryan Cumming [this message]
2002-09-29  7:03                               ` [PATCH] fix htree dir corrupt after fsck -fD chrisl
2002-09-29  8:16                                 ` Ryan Cumming
2002-09-29  8:36                                   ` Ryan Cumming
2002-09-30  2:46                                   ` Ryan Cumming
2002-09-29 14:13                                 ` Theodore Ts'o
2002-09-25 23:31 ` [BK PATCH] Add ext3 indexed directory (htree) support Daniel Egger
2002-09-26  0:32   ` Randy.Dunlap
2002-09-26  0:50 ` Aaron Lehmann
2002-09-26  3:28   ` Theodore Ts'o
2002-10-02  9:11 tytso

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