Hi guys, I have a gentoo system with kernel gentoo-sources-2.6.31-r1.
My /var partition is formatted as ext4 and mounted with default options (so delayed allocation is enabled). While upgrading some packages my system crashed. The crash in itself is not related to paludis or ext4. After a reboot and a regular fsck, I found out that the /var/db/pkg/<category>/<package>/SLOT was empty (size 0) for a few packages that paludis was installing during the upgrade phase. This issue looks very much like the famous "ext4, delayed allocation and zero file length" issue. I've read many things about the subject, most of them written by the author of ext4, Theodore T'so. What I've read from Theodore and the fact that the corruption always happen on the same file (SLOT) makes me think that there may be an issue in paludis. Maybe a forgotten fsync after writing the SLOT file ? Thanks ! Rodolphe Rocca _______________________________________________ paludis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pioto.org/mailman/listinfo/paludis-user
