> -----Original Message----- > From: Martin Schlemmer [mailto:azarah@gentoo.org] > Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 12:23 PM > To: Christopher Li > Cc: KML; akpm@digeo.com; adilger@clusterfs.com; ext3-users@redhat.com; > x86-kernel@gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [2.6] Perl weirdness with ext3 and HTREE > > > On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 20:28, Christopher Li wrote: > > I can take a look at it. > > > > Is there any way to reproduce this bug without installing the > > whole gentoo? It would be nice if I can just download some > > package to make it happen. > > > > I cannot really see that it is a Gentoo specific problem, but > who knows. > I will try to get a CD of another distro somewhere, and get that on a > box to test - currently work/whatnot just keeps me pretty tied up :( > Another reason why I posted, is now that 2.6 is more widely > used/tested, > its not only me that gets this, but other users as well - thus I hoped > that somebody with more time wanted to have a crack at it. I am not claiming it is a gentoo issue. I just want to duplicate this bug with minimal damage to my box. > > Back to the problem - on the same system, a 2.4 kernel works fine, but > a 2.5/6 kernel activates a race that creates an invalid > entry. I guess > the primary reason why not many people see this, is because most > non-Gentoo folk do not compile perl-5.8.0 from source. > > Just grab the perl source, if you want, I can mail you the ebuild that > should give some direction in how to compile it, or grab your local > .spec, configure it (maybe with install location not in /), and then > just compile and finally install to a ext3 FS with HTREE enabled. > Usually over here, it keeps on leaving an invalid entry to > ..usr/share/man/man3/Hash::Util.tmp. OK, I will try the perl install first. > > If it works fine (with a 2.6 kernel), I will go and bang my > head against > a wall, and shutup until I can make time to try and track > this - if not, > any ideas as to creating it outside the perl install (or > rather the man > page part of the install process) would be great. > You can do a strace on the perl install, then grep for all the file changes happen on that directory. There is a good chance follow the strace log can duplicate the bug also. Thanks Chris > > _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
