[Ocfs2-users] Stability issues with ocfs2 on a mailserver cluster

[Mark Fasheh]

Hi,

On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 05:46:10PM +0200, Christian Schlittchen wrote:
> Another problem we have detected is with the vacation program. Vacation,
> when called with the parameter -i, initializes the vacation database.
> On an ocfs2-Filesystem this gives inconsistent results. Sometimes the
> initialization works fine, but sometimes it creates a damaged db-file.
> This happens in roughly 50% off all attempts to initialize the database
> but seems totally random.
Can you apply the following patches (in order) to your kernel tree and
rebuild? A bug with our extend zeroing code seems to have creeped in
recently and this fixes it.

http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mfasheh/ocfs2/backports/2.6.18/
	--Mark

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Mark Fasheh
Senior Software Developer, Oracle
mark.fasheh at oracle.com