Re: Filesystem corruption with 2.6.36-rc1-wl+ and ecryptfs

From: Kalle Valo
Date: Thu Aug 26 2010 - 02:46:25 EST


Kalle Valo <kvalo@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> I just installed my first 2.6.36 kernel, 2.6.36-rc1-wl+ from
> wireless-testing, and immeadialy (during first boot) got major
> corruption in the filesystem. For example, gnome lost it's settings,
> ~/.ssh was empty etc. Now, with an older kernel, my directory
> structure has duplicate entries, like this:
>
> $ ls -ald D*
> drwxr-xr-x 2 kvalo kvalo 4096 2010-08-17 19:21 Desktop/
> drwxr-xr-x 2 kvalo kvalo 4096 2010-08-17 19:21 Desktop/
> drwxr-xr-x 2 kvalo kvalo 4096 2010-08-17 19:21 Documents/
> drwxr-xr-x 2 kvalo kvalo 4096 2010-08-17 19:21 Documents/
> drwxr-xr-x 2 kvalo kvalo 4096 2010-08-17 19:21 Downloads/
> drwxr-xr-x 2 kvalo kvalo 4096 2010-08-17 19:21 Downloads/
>
> I'm using ecryptfs and that's my major suspect for the corruption, but
> naturally I can't be sure because I'm just guessing here.

(For the archives)

It was ecryptfs, bug report here:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ecryptfs/+bug/623087

And fix here:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/ecryptfs/ecryptfs-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=b4ef26e06ce0c4877bd5a736b0dfb318a4fb9002

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Kalle Valo
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