[Unionfs] corruption of rpm database with unionfs (and ldconfig)

[Olivier Blin]

Erez Zadok <ezk at cs.sunysb.edu> writes:

> In message <m3prulos1m.fsf at dynamo.mandriva.com>, Olivier Blin writes:
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>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> We have a weird rpm database corruption in Mandriva live systems with
>> current unionfs (2.2.4).
>> Databases files from /var/lib/rpm get corrupted with no obvious
>> reason after running ldconfig (at first look, it does not look
>> related to the ldconfig thread on this ML).
>
> Olivier, can you please retry with unionfs-2.3 and let me know if it
> improves the situation?  If not, can you send me a URL to a new iso image to
> test this on?  (I don't care how large the image is.)

Hello Erez,

I can't reproduce the bug with unionfs 2.3.1, thanks a lot for the fix!
Any idea about which patch fixed the problem? Was it a mmap issue?

If you still need a reproducible testcase, you can try with this
updated image:
http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/MandrivaLinux/devel/iso/2008.1/rc2/mandriva-linux-2008-spring-rc2-one-KDE-int-cdrom-i586.iso

Thanks again

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Olivier Blin (blino) - Mandriva