From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 2 May 2002 17:59:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 2 May 2002 17:59:11 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:57361 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 2 May 2002 17:59:09 -0400 Message-ID: <3CD1B675.BBFBA61B@zip.com.au> Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 14:58:13 -0700 From: Andrew Morton X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.19-pre4 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl CC: daniel@rimspace.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.5.12 severe ext3 filesystem corruption warning! In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote: > > >> 2.5.12, serious ext3 filesystem corrupting behavior > > I have had problems with 2.5.10 (first few blocks of the root > filesystem overwritten) and then went back to 2.5.8 that I had > used for a while already, but then also noticed corruption there. > Back at 2.4.17 today.. > > In my case the problem was almost certainly the IDE code. hmm. Maybe. As Al says, the fact that it concerned mapped files is deeply fishy. Daniel, could you please check your logs for IDE errors and "buffer layer errors" and also tell us (as much as you can remember) the names of all the affected files, and what application would have written them. Thanks. -