Re: 2.4.2 ext2fs corruption status

Alan Cox
2001-08-02T00:19:46Z

> It may be that Red Hat has already released a new kernel RPM since that
> time, or maybe you need to compile a new kernel.

The official VIA workaround fix is now in 2.4.6ac5 and 2.4.7ac*. The fixes
in the older kernels were mostly going to do the job but I dont know if they
were perfect for all cases

The -ac kernel tree also contains important fixes that avoid DMA timeouts
potentially causing disk corruption by forgetting to write sectors