Re: ext2 filesystem corruptions back from dead? 2.4.0-test11

[Neil Brown]

On Thursday November 23, [e-mail] wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Alexander Viro wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Neil Brown wrote:
> > 
> > > which enabled ext2_notify_change, however ext2_notify_change has a
> > > bug.
> > > It sets attributes from iattr->ia_attr_flags even
> > > if ATTR_ATTR_FLAG is NOT SET in iattr->ia_valid.
> > 
> > Arrrgh. Could you try that:
> 
> OK, I really need more coffee - wrong patch. My apologies. Correct (OK,
> intended) one follows:

Hmmm. either you need more coffee, or I need a new compiler.
I'm using 2.95.2, and there seems to be some question marks over that.

Unfortunately debian/potato doesn't seem to offer anything else
(Except 2.7.2), so I'll try to download and compile egcs-1.1.2 and see
how that works.

I ran my test script, which builds a variety of raid5 arrays with
varying numbers of drives and chunk sizes, and runs mkfs/bonnie/dbench
on each array, and it got through about 8 file systems but choked on
the 9th by trying to allocate lots of blocks in the system zone (after
running for about an hour). 

NeilBrown