On Wednesday 15 October 2008, Eric Sandeen wrote: > Andrey Borzenkov wrote: > > There is long standing open bug report on Mandriva which is currently > > beieved to have root cause in file system corruption. It shows itself > > in RPM DB corruption (at least, there is no other known method to trigger > > it). So far all reported cases happened on filesystem with 1K block size > > and stopped when RPM DB was moved to FS with 4K block size. > > > > There are also similar RH reports as well. > > > > Here are references: > > > > https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=32547 > > > > This one is rather long. > > yep, unfortunately IIRC most of the bug is "me too's" and "how do I do > the workaround" :) > > > Interesting bits are probably around > > > > https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=32547#c177 > > https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=32547#c148 (many users reporting > > dumpe2fs) > > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=230362 > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=375931 > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=305301 > > > > The Mandriva bugzilla also mentions this mail from Stephen Tweedie > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/18/232 > > I don't think this is related, in the end... there was some possiblity > of corruption from that, but I think it's doubtful it'd hit 1k block > filesystems more, and in any case, the corruption has been seen since > then if I read it right. > > > which indicates some issues with 1K blocks, but according to last comment: > > https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=32547#c300 > > > > it is still present in 2.6.27 (at least was present on -rc6) > > > > There was a kernel bug report http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11564, > > but in this case it was identified as hardware issue. > > My kingdom for a testcase... does anyone have simple steps to reproduce > this? Or do they all start with "install mandriva on a 1k block size > system?" :) > May be RH will do? :) As indicated by last comment, Pascal has some ways to trigger it; I forgot to Cc to him initially; doing it now.
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