Re: data corruption with 2.4.25 and datalogging patches

[Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>]

It seems like bad memory is growing as a percentage of user filesystem
problem sources.   Do others have that feeling also?

Hans

Brad Dameron wrote:

>On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 21:55 +0400, Vladimir V. Saveliev wrote:
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>>Hello
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>>On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 10:53 +0200, Francisco Javier Cabello wrote:
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>>>Hello Vladimir,
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>>>>such corruptions used to be considered as hardware bugs. Memory failure,
>>>>for instance. Did you ever run memtest on your systems?
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>>>Yes, We have run memtest in our system. It's very seldom to find a system with 
>>>a hardware memory problem running. When we find a memory problem the kernel 
>>>doesn't boot. I am going to pass memtest in some of the system with reiserfs 
>>>corruption problem.
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>This is not true. There are certain memory issues that can still allow
>the system to boot and appear to run ok. I had a system that didn't show
>a memory error until the 4th pass on memtest. I just happened to let it
>run over the weekend. I have seen other issues with my larger systems
>that have 64GB of ram. To where memtest after a week didn't detect
>anything but the kernel mcelog reported weird ECC memory issues. I
>replaced several DIMM's and the issue went away. But who knows what
>could of occured had I not replaced the memory.
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>Brad Dameron
>SeaTab Software
>www.seatab.com
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