Pascal Terjan wrote: > 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. so it seems to be the database rebuilding, under a recent kernel, which causes the problem? installing under a recent kernel is ok, as long as the db was created on an older kernel? Ok that's a good clue... -Eric -- 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
