Le jeudi 16 octobre 2008 à 09:38 -0500, Eric Sandeen a écrit : > 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? Yes -- 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