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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
To: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>,
	Andreas Steinmetz <ast@domdv.de>,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.20.3: kernel BUG at mm/slab.c:597 try#2
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 17:06:57 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1174342017.3512.58.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200703191747.48826.gene.heskett@gmail.com>

On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 17:47 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> James, could this also be the cause of a tar based backup going crazy and 
> thinking all data is new under any 2.6.21-rc* kernel I've tested so far 
> with amanda, which in my case uses tar?  I've tried the fedora patched 
> tar-1.15-1, and one I hand built right after 1.15-1 came out over a year 
> ago, and they both do it, but only when booted to a 2.6.21-rc* kernel.
> 
> This obviously will be a show-stopper, either for amanda (and by 
> inference, any app that uses tar), or for the migration of an amanda 
> users machinery to a 2.6.21 kernel.

Er, I don't think so .. that sounds like mtime miscompare, which is
either a problem with the filesystem or a problem with the way mtime is
stored in the tar archive.

James



  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-19 22:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-19  0:34 Andreas Steinmetz
2007-03-19  6:00 ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-19  8:00   ` Pekka Enberg
2007-03-19  8:32     ` Pekka Enberg
2007-03-19  8:35       ` Pekka Enberg
2007-03-19 17:49 ` Mike Christie
2007-03-19 18:29   ` James Bottomley
2007-03-19 19:06     ` Mike Christie
2007-03-19 21:12       ` Mike Christie
2007-03-19 23:25         ` Andreas Steinmetz
2007-03-19 23:40           ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-19 23:46             ` Andreas Steinmetz
2007-03-19 23:25       ` Andreas Steinmetz
2007-03-19 21:47     ` Gene Heskett
2007-03-19 22:06       ` James Bottomley [this message]
2007-03-19 23:29         ` Gene Heskett

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