Re: easily reproducible filesystem crash on rebuilding array

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Le Tue, 13 Jan 2015 12:21:08 +0100
Emmanuel Florac <eflorac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> écrivait:

> * XFS v4 on rebuilding adaptec RAID fails under heavy IO, with or
>   without LVM, with kernels 3.2.xx up to 3.17.7.
> 
> * Today I've run the same test with ext4 : no problem whatsoever. I'm
>   rechecking md5 of all files to get sure, but it looks OK so far
> after testing several terabytes. 
> 
> I don't understand how the RAID firmware could send back bad data
> (corrupted metadata AND data) to XFS but not to ext4...
> 

Beep, the md5 are wrong. So we see why we love XFS : when the RAID
controller spits nonsense, it barks and cries and dies noisily :)

ext4 didn't notice any problem, though the data is mangled. This is
bad...

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