ext3 fs problem in 2.4.18-rc1?

ext3 fs problem in 2.4.18-rc1?

[Ed Sweetman]

I'm using 2.4.18-rc1 with the preempt patch and whenever I run fsck, it
keeps finding more and more errors.  Specifically those related to
corrupted orphan linked lists. I dont know what is going on but I know
it's not the drives because they were all tested before partitioning
under an older (woody's kernel) and everything was fine (bad block
test).  

No matter how many times I run fsck, even immediately after a previous
run, it picks up the same errors along with new ones it seemingly
created in the last run. 

if there is any more information about the problem I can give just say
what's needed. I'd like to get to the bottom of this. 

Re: ext3 fs problem in 2.4.18-rc1?

[Matthias Andree]

On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Ed Sweetman wrote:

> I'm using 2.4.18-rc1 with the preempt patch and whenever I run fsck, it
> keeps finding more and more errors.  Specifically those related to
> corrupted orphan linked lists. I dont know what is going on but I know
> it's not the drives because they were all tested before partitioning
> under an older (woody's kernel) and everything was fine (bad block
> test).  

Can you confirm your memory is OK? I saw this behaviour on 2.4.14 or
2.4.16 (release) with a fault memory module. Run memtest86 to figure --
the kernel may trigger it now while another kernel does not because of
changed memory management.

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