Le mercredi 15 octobre 2008 à 09:43 -0500, Eric Sandeen a écrit : > Andrey Borzenkov wrote: > > On Wednesday 15 October 2008, Eric Sandeen wrote: > > > >> 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? :) > > I did try a 1k-block root fs Fedora install, and didn't see any problems... > > > As indicated by last comment, Pascal has some ways to trigger it; I > > forgot to Cc to him initially; doing it now. > > Ok, good deal. > On my test machine I reproduce it easily : rpm --rebuilddb and if the db is not detected to be corrupted yet it will be after installing a few packages (tested again with 2.6.27). If I do the rebuilddb on a 2.6.17 and then reboot on a recent kernel, then I can install/uninstall thousands of packages without any corruption. I wanted to try a few things including copying the partition to a file and trying to reproduce in a vm. Given how I can reproduce and repair it i can even write a bisecting script which would basically be an initscript which would do if on test kernel - rebuild the db - install 10 rpm - remove the 10 rpm - check the db - do the good/bad - reboot onto 2.6.17 else if on 2.6.17 - rebuild the db - build the kernel - reboot on test kernel and let it run :) All I need is to find some time with nothing more urgent... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
