From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jens Benecke Subject: Re: $25 question - ReiserFS 3.6 data errors on 2.4.23 Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 13:30:36 +0100 Sender: news Message-ID: References: <20040218093510.GD21098@backtop.namesys.com> <1077098911.5090.38.camel@tribesman.namesys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com Vladimir Saveliev wrote: >> Feb 17 14:40:18 linux1 kernel: is_leaf: item location seems wrong (second >> one): *3.6* [68637 68643 0x1 IND], item_len 8, item_location 1444, >> free_space(entry_count) 0 >> Feb 17 14:40:18 linux1 kernel: drbd(43,0):vs-5150: search_by_key: invalid >> format found in block 4683374. Fsck? > These days usually when one notices similar corruptions - he later > discovers hardware problem (memory problem more often). May I ask you to > try memtest for some time. =20 We finally found time to halt one machine and did. memtest86 finds about 150 seemingly random places in RAM where bit errors occur. It's a wonder that Linux had an uptime of over 90 days with almost flawless operation on a machine with THAT kind of hopelessly b0rken RAM. Thank you for being so stubborn about hardware errors. :-) --=20 Jens Benecke (jens at spamfreemail.de) http://www.hitchhikers.de - Europaweite kostenlose Mitfahrzentrale http://www.spamfreemail.de - 100% saubere Postf=E4cher - garantiert! http://www.rb-hosting.de - PHP ab 9? - SSH ab 19? - g=FCnstiger Traffic