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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
To: Silvan <silvan@windows-sucks.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.4.18 + ext3 = filesystem corruption
Date: Thu, 09 May 2002 20:14:02 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CDB3AFA.31A377F@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200205092156.12911.silvan@windows-sucks.com>

Interesting domain name.

Silvan wrote:
> 
> ...
>  I had a filesystem explosion (across the board corruption on all ext3
>  partitions, brought to my attention by a rather nasty series of EXT3_fs
>  errors and an immediate crash) about a month back.
> ...

I've just re-reviewed the 2.4.16 -> 2.4.18 diffs.  There's really
nothing there which could explain this.  We have:

- lots of s/bread/sb_bread/etc.  Which is rather unfortunate because
  it complicates any attempt to back out to 2.4.16's ext3.

- A bug fix for locking journal buffers (the infamous "request_list
  destroyed" bug)

- Some error-path-only code which remounts the fs readonly rather than taking
  down the machine when the unexpected happens.

> 
>  My hardware:
> 
>  AMD K7-1000 on ASUS A7V (VIA Apollo KT133a chipset, integrated Promise
>  ATA-100 controller), 256 MB RAM, Linksys 10/100E NIC, USR PCI Performance
>  Pro modem, SB PCI 128, Riva TNT2 AGP video (running at 4X in BIOS and in X),
>  CREATIVE CD-RW RW8439E, CD-950E/TKU, Maxtor 94610H6, generic PS/2 mouse,
>  generic FD, and a 104-key keyboard.

I'd be suspecting this, frankly.   Might be an IDE failure.

-

      reply	other threads:[~2002-05-10  3:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-10  1:56 Kernel 2.4.18 + ext3 = filesystem corruption Silvan
2002-05-10  3:14 ` Andrew Morton [this message]

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