On Nov 13 2006 08:24, [email protected] wrote:
>Hello, on two different boxes with 2.6.18.x kernels I created two file
>systems (ReiserFS and JFS). Both failed totally after about 1-2 days of
>using them.
The disk may have gone bad. (Unlikely, though)
>Dmesg reported corruption errors/warnings. When I unmounted and tried to
>remount - mound was unable to find superblocks.
>
>Before both failures I was playing with swap (swapoff -a swapon -a), I
>use encripted swap.
>
>So, perhaps there is a bug connected to some of the following aspects:
>- using newly or recently created file system (bug in code that is used
>to grow a short, "young" tree)
>- problems with swap / encrypted swap
>
>I saved image of 100 mb of the beginning of reiserfs partition after it
>failed, I can sent it (or part of it) if anyone wants to investigate.
>
>Since I use grsecurity patch -
Recently there seem to be quite a few corruption reports involving
setups with grsecurity.
If you can reproduce the problem with gr, see if you can reproduce it
without gr.
-`J'
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