Subject: Re: [vserver] Possible Hashify Corruption - Update 2
From: "John A. Sullivan III" <jsullivan@opensourcedevel.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 10:53:55 -0400

On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 15:02 +0100, Gordan Bobic wrote:
> I have just tested this with a new kernel. And the issue doesn't arise 
> with 2.6.35.7-vs2.3.0.36.33! So it is definitely a kernel bug, most 
> likely in ext4.
> 
> This really needs to be documented and stressed on the pages with 
> download links. Hashify feature causes total data corruption with 
> 2.6.30.10-vs2.3.0.36.14-pre8 when used on ext4 without a journal.
> 
> I haven't tried other cases (ext4 with a journal or other file systems) 
> so I cannot speak for those, but in the mentioned use cases it is 
> completely repeatable.
> 
> Gordan
Thank you, very, very much for wrestling this down - John