Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2008 22:22:26 +0100 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: Jakub Siroky <jakob@dev.citybikes.cz> Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org, cracauer@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, maxim@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: infinite loop when copying to ext2fs Message-ID: <47C9C912.1020700@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20080301220924.72bf355d@dev.citybikes.cz> References: <20080118120140.2a8170a0@dev> <47921931.9050606@FreeBSD.org> <47921AE2.1060004@FreeBSD.org> <20080301220924.72bf355d@dev.citybikes.cz>
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Jakub Siroky wrote: > I've just confirmed the same situation on 6.2-RELEASE amd64/GENERIC. I > did not noticed it before because I started using ext2fs extensively > some months ago. > > Regards, > Jakub > > On Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:44:34 +0100 > Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > >> Kris Kennaway wrote: >>> Jakub Siroky wrote: >>>> I have two large ext2fs partitions (368 and 313GB) to hold data >>>> shared between several OSes. While there were no problems on >>>> 6-STABLE branch I was quite disappointed after upgrade to >>>> 7-STABLE. Whenever I copy/write to ext2fs partition the system >>>> freezes totally without crashdump. So I set debugging settings to >>>> kernel config (DEBUG,WITNESS,..) and in console I reproduced error >>>> situation ending with full screen of unstoppable running text with >>>> lot of memory addresses and a few recognisable words: 'new block >>>> bit set for ext already' - again with no crashdump. Then I have >>>> formatted 1GB partition with ext2fs and the problem on this small >>>> partition appears only sometimes. >>> OK, I am able to reproduce this. >>> >>> Kris >>> >> Is anyone able to look at this? I could not spot a candidate change >> that has not been merged to 6.x. >> >> Kris > > Sounds like it may have been broken by the change to ext2_bitops.h by cracauer. Can you confirm whether backing out 1.2.2.1 fixes it? Kris
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