On Sat, 2008-06-21 at 11:35 +0200, Thomas Lindroth wrote: > Chris Mason wrote: > > So, is the bittorrent program run every time you see the memory > > corruption? > > > > Could you please send along a few of the most common errors you see? > > > It's possible to recreate it with mv, cp and other tools without having > the torrent program running. > > I've found a way to trigger the problem every time. If I copy a folder > with music videos to a freshly created FS it will always fail on the > same file when about 5.6G of data has been copied. The FS is 30G and > there is nothing special with that file. If I only copy that file to a > fresh FS everything works. I've also tried to run > dd if=/dev/zero of=test to a fresh FS and I was able to write 15G, but I > was not able to remove that file. > Something in your config is much less stable than my test boxes here. Focusing on the dd test, it looks like random corruption in the FS metadata. I see you've got gentoo i386 and a 2.6.24 kernel, are there any other patches in that kernel? -chris -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
