Subject: Re: [vserver] Possible Hashify Corruption
From: Gordan Bobic <gordan@bobich.net>
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 08:38:10 +0100

Nikolay Kichukov wrote:
> Hi Gordan, you may want to check that url below:
> 
> http://npadovano.altervista.org/tarpit.html
> 
> I have not tried that myself, just performed a quick search and bumped into it. Seems
like a patch for 2.6.35.7 is out
> there...

Thanks for that, I'll look into it. :)
I wonder if this is a completely different implementation or just an 
update to the old version that fell out of netfilter's patch-o-matic 
after around 2.6.22 and was only maintained up to around 2.6.29 by the 
project site where I got it...

> and second, I consider it an inappropriate option to keep the filesystem mounted in
writeback mode without a battery
> backed up disk controller? Anyone?

Well, I don't really see it as any less appropriate than any 
non-journalled file system. Either way, I don't think that is 
responsible for my problem - the machine was running fine for weeks 
before I shut it down, and it was a clean shutdown. Unless there was a 
very weird bug in ext4 involved. Or I have a disk failure on my hands. 
But from what I've found, the damage seems too limited to binary files 
for that.

Gordan