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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: ken@kenmoffat.uklinux.net (Ken Moffat)
Cc: J.A.K.Mouw@ITS.TUDelft.NL (Erik Mouw),
	mason@suse.com (Chris Mason),
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (Linux kernel mailing list)
Subject: Re: reiserfs: still problems with tail conversion
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 20:53:15 +0000 (GMT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E14Wlgs-0000Sp-00@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0102241917020.1720-100000@localhost.localdomain> from "Ken Moffat" at Feb 24, 2001 07:27:02 PM

> 32Mb. The test results vary depending on what else is on the partition,
> but in each case the last file affected is 01017 and there are sequences
> of previous_number+4, for up to 8 files (but next file after this might be
> previous+7 or previous +15, or sporadic). From other problems I've seen on
> the list, maybe I need more memory to run reiserfs ?

No. Reiserfs cannot go around corrupting files regardless of the amount of
memory you have. What is however quite possible is that there is a race
condition on reiserfs (or in the VFS) that is triggered when you are paging
and programs are thus sleeping on buffer and memory allocations


  reply	other threads:[~2001-02-24 20:51 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 [this message]
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
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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