From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 14:49:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 14:49:42 -0500 Received: from styx.suse.cz ([195.70.145.226]:32242 "EHLO kerberos.suse.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 14:49:33 -0500 Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 20:49:32 +0100 From: Vojtech Pavlik To: Tobias Ringstrom Cc: Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: 2.4 ate my filesystem on rw-mount Message-ID: <20010112204932.B2740@suse.cz> In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from tori@tellus.mine.nu on Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 10:15:45AM +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 10:15:45AM +0100, Tobias Ringstrom wrote: > I've never seen anything like it before, which I'm happy for. The system > had been running a standard RedHat 7 kernel for days without any problems, > but who wants to run a 2.2 kernel? I compiled 2.4.0 for it, rebooted, and > blam! The RedHat init stripts got to the "remounting root read-write" > point, and just froze solid. > > Rebooting into RH7 failed, becauce inittab could not be found. In fact > the filesystem was completely messed up, with /dev empty, lots of device > nodes in /etc, and files missing all over the place. I had to reinstall > RH7 from scratch. > > I do not understand how this could happen during a remounting root rw. > Is the filesystem really that unstable? > > Am I right in suspecting DMA, which was enabled at the time? Any other > ideas? Is it a known problem? > > This is on a 450 MHz AMD-K6 with the following IDE controller: > > 00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586 IDE [Apollo] (rev 06) > > [I know this is not a very good trouble report, but it will have to do for > the time beeing. I hope to do more testing at a later time.] > > /Tobias > > PS. This is _not_ the same system that I reported IDE busy errors for. Wow. Ok, I'm maintaining the 2.4.0 VIA driver, so I'd like to know more about this: 1) What's the ISA bridge revision? 2) What's in /proc/ide/via? 3) What says hdparm -i on your devices? 4) If you mount your filesystem read-only, does it read garbage? Thanks. -- Vojtech Pavlik SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/