Subject: Re: [vserver] Possible Hashify Corruption - Update 2
From: Gordan Bobic <gordan@bobich.net>
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 11:19:18 +0100

Art -kwaak- van Breemen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 01:41:23PM -0700, Martin Fick wrote:
>> I think that generally older kernels with ext4 are considered dangerous.  First google
link for ext4 data corruption:
>>
>> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ext4#Data_Corruption
> 
> You know that you link to a page that says there is no ext4 data
> corruption? The only way of "corruption" ext4 exhibits, is when
> the kernels dies hard, and applications *do not* conform to
> posix. (Better, most of those desktop environments seem to be
> very badly written).
> http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Ext4-data-loss-explanations-and-workarounds-740671.html
> 
> So any ext4 corruption you can find has to do with bad
> applications combined with a hard reboot, there is no real
> corruption going on in the filesystem.

As they say - don't believe everything you read on the internet. :)
There is a reproducible corruption case documented in this thread.

Gordan