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From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: Strange disk failure...could ext4 be the culprit?
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:12:25 -0400
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Cc: Evan King <f11n1@unb.ca>, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
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On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 11:05:20AM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> > So my questions are these:
> > 
> >  - How likely is it that some arcane bug in ext4 is responsible for the failure?
> 
> Can you check whether your kernel have this patch
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=2ec0ae3acec47f628179ee95fe2c4da01b5e9fc4

And did you have multiple CPU's on the system which suffered the
problem?  (A requirement for this to have been the problem).

	     		     	     	       	   - Ted