Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3

[Marc Haber]

On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 12:46:01AM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 17:42 +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 10:38:12AM +0900, Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao wrote:
> > > Does the patch below help?
> > > 
> > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-ext4&m=116483980823714&w=4
> > 
> > No, pkgcache.bin still getting corrupted within two hours of using
> > 2.6.19.
> > 
> > Greetings
> > Marc, back to 2.6.18.3 for the time being
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've missed most of this thread, but have cause to be interested.  Do
> you have a generic recipe for reproducing file corruption?

My recipe is running apt-get update from cron. This needs Debian
though. Maybe a chroot installation will suffice.

I'm going to try data=writeback first.

Greetings
Marc

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