Re: Spurious Filesystem corruption with ext3 + large (<400GB) hw RAID partition + SMP

From: Manfred Wassmann
Date: Fri Feb 06 2009 - 13:11:25 EST


On 2/1/09, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[...]
> Search the list archives, there are other problem reports for that
> 3ware card, you probably want to check those.

Thank you very much, I checked these but I could not find much about
filesystem corruption problems. The most similar problem was mentioned
in http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/6/23/230 but was related to xen which
isn't in use here.

Regarding the memory test, memtest86+ ran for almost 70 hours without
detecting any error.

I trying to reproduce the problem using my installation disk and
running stress/dbench but wasn't able to do so. The only reliable way
to reproduce it is to install Ubuntu, which isn't very helpful :-(

As already said I'm no longer using ext3 for the systems in question,
so if switching filesystems really does solve my problem, this will be
my last post in this regard. In any case thanks for your help.

regards Manfred
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