From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: Errors requiring --rebuild-tree in 2.4.23
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 15:05:17 +0300
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To: Jens Benecke <jens@spamfreemail.de>
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Jens Benecke wrote:

>Hans Reiser wrote:
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>>errors like this are not due to a lack of data-logging.
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>>Dec  1 06:26:05 artus kernel: is_leaf: item location seems wrong (second
>>one): *3.6* [113366 113466 0x1 DIRECT], item_len 280, item_location 1216,
>>free_space(entry_count) 65535
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>Hello Hans,
>
>can you imagine a hardware failure causing these errors that does not show
>up in the logs? Usually IDE disk failures are accompanied with IDE layer
>errors, unless the disk is totally down (which it isn't in this case).
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In theory it could be bad memory or bad CPU.  Software bug seems far 
more likely.  I will let Chris try to debug this, if he fails to get to 
the bottom of it, let me know.

-- 
Hans