Hi, On Sun, 04 Dec 2011 23:56:40 +0900 (JST), Ryusuke Konishi wrote: > Hi, > On Fri, 2 Dec 2011 16:33:09 -0800, Zahid Chowdhury wrote: > > Hello, > > If I move the system date forward, have some checkpoints created and then move the date backward a 2.0 cleanerd daemon fails on this error: > > Nov 30 14:39:37 nilfs_cleanerd[5789]: start > > Nov 30 14:39:38 kernel: nilfs_ioctl_move_inode_block: conflicting data > > buffer: ino=4, cno=0, offset=0, blocknr=665655, vblocknr=566462 > > Nov 30 14:39:38 kernel: NILFS: GC failed during preparation: cannot read > > source blocks: err=-17 > > Nov 30 14:39:38 nilfs_cleanerd[5789]: cannot clean segments: File exists > > Nov 30 14:39:38 nilfs_cleanerd[5789]: shutdown > > > > I cannot ever start up the daemon. If I move to a 2.1 daemon, then it logs no errors, but it cleans no old or newer (really older) checkpoints - it just sits in a do-nothing mode (strace(1) shows he is hung on a mq_timedreceive syscall). > > Hmm, this error seems to be caused by a known bug which was already > fixed on nilfs-utils 2.1 with the following patch. > > It might be an actual corruption by the kernel code of nilfs2 if you > were using old kernels, but it's most likely due to the bug. > > I will backport the fix to nilfs-utils 2.0 series and make another > release of it. > > Regards, > Ryusuke Konishi I've just released nilfs-utils-2.0.24 on nilfs.org. Please try it. Thanks, Ryusuke Konishi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nilfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html