File system corruption under 2.4.21-pre5-ac1

File system corruption under 2.4.21-pre5-ac1

[Samuel Flory]

   I'm seeing filesystem corruption on a number of intel SE7501wv2's 
under 2.4.21-pre5-ac1.  The systems are running Cerberus (ctcs).  They 
fail the kcompile, and memtst tests.  


   At 1st I thought it was memory, but the systems are fine under 
memtest86, and the Cerberus memtst failures disappear if I turn off my 
swap devices.  The kcompile failures seem to point to  random file 
corruption from copying the kernel tree.  (Cerberus copies a new copy of 
the kernel for each compile.)

  I suspect the aic79xx driver as:

1)I've running ctcs with the same kernel on 100+ SE7501wv2 with ide drives.
2)This occurs under reiserfs, and ext3.
3)I've been using 2.4.21-pre5-ac1 to burnin systems for quite some time.

-- 
There is no such thing as obsolete hardware.
Merely hardware that other people don't want.
(The Second Rule of Hardware Acquisition)
Sam Flory  <sflory@rackable.com>

Re: File system corruption under 2.4.21-pre5-ac1

[Justin T. Gibbs]

>    I'm seeing filesystem corruption on a number of intel SE7501wv2's under
> 2.4.21-pre5-ac1.  The systems are running Cerberus (ctcs).  They fail the
> kcompile, and memtst tests.

Are you running the aic79xx driver version embedded in that kernel version
or the latest from my site?

http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gibbs/linux/SRC/

--
Justin

Re: File system corruption under 2.4.21-pre5-ac1

[Samuel Flory]

Justin T. Gibbs wrote:

>>    I'm seeing filesystem corruption on a number of intel SE7501wv2's 
>> under
>> 2.4.21-pre5-ac1.  The systems are running Cerberus (ctcs).  They fail 
>> the
>> kcompile, and memtst tests.
>
>
> Are you running the aic79xx driver version embedded in that kernel 
> version
> or the latest from my site?
>
> http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gibbs/linux/SRC/ 


  That seems to have fixed the issues.  All of the systems burned in 
over night with out issue.   Thanks.


-- 
There is no such thing as obsolete hardware.
Merely hardware that other people don't want.
(The Second Rule of Hardware Acquisition)
Sam Flory  <sflory@rackable.com>

Re: File system corruption under 2.4.21-pre5-ac1

[Martin Knoblauch]

> Re: File system corruption under 2.4.21-pre5-ac1
> 
> From: Justin T. Gibbs (gibbs@scsiguy.com)
> Date: Mon Mar 31 2003 - 14:26:27 EST
> 
> 
> > I'm seeing filesystem corruption on a number of intel SE7501wv2's under
> > 2.4.21-pre5-ac1. The systems are running Cerberus (ctcs). They fail the
> > kcompile, and memtst tests.
> 
> Are you running the aic79xx driver version embedded in that kernel version
> or the latest from my site?
> 
> http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gibbs/linux/SRC/
> 
Justin,

 would you call the 1.3.6 version of aic79xx stable or "production
quality"? There still seems to be quite a lot of changes going on. 

Martin

Re: File system corruption under 2.4.21-pre5-ac1

[Samuel Flory]

Martin Knoblauch wrote:

>>Re: File system corruption under 2.4.21-pre5-ac1
>>
>>From: Justin T. Gibbs (gibbs@scsiguy.com)
>>Date: Mon Mar 31 2003 - 14:26:27 EST
>>
>>
>>    
>>
>>>I'm seeing filesystem corruption on a number of intel SE7501wv2's under
>>>2.4.21-pre5-ac1. The systems are running Cerberus (ctcs). They fail the
>>>kcompile, and memtst tests.
>>>      
>>>
>>Are you running the aic79xx driver version embedded in that kernel version
>>or the latest from my site?
>>
>>http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gibbs/linux/SRC/
>>
>>    
>>
>Justin,
>
> would you call the 1.3.6 version of aic79xx stable or "production
>quality"? There still seems to be quite a lot of changes going on. 
>
>  
>

   Up until this point I've found the aic79xx driver to be very stable. 
 I know people running 100s of systems without issue on older revs of 
the driver.

-- 
There is no such thing as obsolete hardware.
Merely hardware that other people don't want.
(The Second Rule of Hardware Acquisition)
Sam Flory  <sflory@rackable.com>

Re: File system corruption under 2.4.21-pre5-ac1

[Martin.Knoblauch]

Samuel Flory <sflory@rackable.com> wrote on 04/01/2003 10:23:11 PM:

> Martin Knoblauch wrote:
>
> >>Re: File system corruption under 2.4.21-pre5-ac1
> >>
> >>From: Justin T. Gibbs (gibbs@scsiguy.com)
> >>Date: Mon Mar 31 2003 - 14:26:27 EST
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>I'm seeing filesystem corruption on a number of intel SE7501wv2's
under
> >>>2.4.21-pre5-ac1. The systems are running Cerberus (ctcs). They fail
the
> >>>kcompile, and memtst tests.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>Are you running the aic79xx driver version embedded in that kernel
version
> >>or the latest from my site?
> >>
> >>http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gibbs/linux/SRC/
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >Justin,
> >
> > would you call the 1.3.6 version of aic79xx stable or "production
> >quality"? There still seems to be quite a lot of changes going on.
> >
> >
> >
>
>    Up until this point I've found the aic79xx driver to be very stable.
>  I know people running 100s of systems without issue on older revs of
> the driver.
>

 The point is that the older drivers seem to be a bit fragile when things
go wrong. If everything is perfect, the 1.1.0 driver is OK. If you
something "marginal" in the setup things get ugly. So I'd like to know
which version Justin would reccomend :-)

Martin

Re: File system corruption under 2.4.21-pre5-ac1

[Justin T. Gibbs]

> So I'd like to know which version Justin would reccomend :-)

I always recommend the latest release.

--
Justin