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From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Bernd Schubert <bs@q-leap.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mkfs.ext2 triggerd RAM corruption
Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 14:49:43 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070504184943.GC25339@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200705041659.51675.bs@q-leap.de>

On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 04:59:51PM +0200, Bernd Schubert wrote:
> 
> I'm presently rather puzzled, if this is really a kernel bug, its a big bug. 
> 
> Summary: The system ramdisk (initrd) gets corrupted while running
> mkfs.ext2 on a local sata disk partition.

What distribution are you using?  What's the hardware configuration,
including amount of memory?  What is the partition table look
like for /dev/sda?  What filesystems are mounted?  If you have any
soft RAID partitions, are any of them using part of /dev/sda?  What
swap partitions are you using?  And do any of the swap partitions
overlap with /dev/sda?  :-)

						- Ted

  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-05  0:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-04 14:59 mkfs.ext2 triggerd RAM corruption Bernd Schubert
2007-05-04 18:49 ` Theodore Tso [this message]
2007-05-05  1:36   ` Bernd Schubert
2007-05-05 18:57     ` Theodore Tso
2007-05-05 19:12       ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-05 22:06         ` Bernd Schubert
2007-05-05 23:09       ` Bernd Schubert
2007-05-04 20:39 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2007-05-05  1:38   ` Bernd Schubert
2007-05-07 18:42   ` Bill Davidsen

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