Re: [SCARED] Is ext2 unreliable?

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Tue May 16 2000 - 07:42:56 EST


> And this came after 15 days of uptime. It just did not free up space, that
> is what I happened to notice ant then this.
>
> How can this happen???
>
> I have 2.2.14pre14 with usb raid and ide patches, the partition was on a
> raid0 over 4 disks two occupying the two PIIX4 channes on the
> motherboard (UDMA2), two on the CMD648 (UDMA4).

1. You are using usb patches
2. You are using raid patches
3. You are using ide patches.

> Would please somebody explain, how this could have happened?

It could be a bug in any of the above. It could be a problem with the disk.
It could be a problem with the ram. It could be a problem with the cabling.
It could be a bug in the mmainstream kernel.

You can eliminate some of these by load testing the machine (memtest86
then kernel building). Try running without the usb/raid patches. etc

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