Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> wrote: > > These two symptoms strongly suggest a buffer aliasing problem. > i.e. you have two buffers (one for data and one for metadata) > that refer to the same location on disc. > One is part of a file that was recently deleted, but the buffer hasn't > been flushed yet. The other is part of a new directory. > The old buffer and the new buffer both get written to disc at much the > same time (hence the "multiple 1 requests"), but the old buffer hits > the disc second and so corrupts the filesystem. This aliasing can happen very easily with direct-io, and it is something which drivers should be able to cope with. I hope RAID is not still assuming that all requests are unique in this way? _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
