On Fri, 4 Apr 1997, Jim Nance wrote:
> Forwarded message:
> > Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 20:20:02 -0500 (EST)
> > From: "Nicholas J. Leon" <nicholas@binary9.net>
> > Subject: Re: ext2 filesystem corruption?!?!??
>
> > # Your choice of low-level controller driver for the attached hard
> > # drives can greatly
> > # impact this problem. I had a machine with an IDE drive and a Triton II
> > # chipset. When I enabled the Triton DMA support, I would get corruption,
> > # reliably, and under light load even. When I disabled the special drivers,
> > # the corruption went away.
>
> > Granted, ext2 could probably use better error handling, but there's
> > bound to be more to it than a resounding "ext2 sucks".
>
> This is certainly true. There are some very large sites running Linux
> who don't seem to be having any problems. It would be good to know what
> type of controllers are being used by the people having problems. It
> would also be extreamly helpful to have a reproducable way of creating
> this problem that was simpler than running news for a few days.
Would also be nice to have some people report
What WORKS....., all the problems in the world
may not point out what is differant.
Although 3 known good setups extremely well documented
& then the known bad setups one can find differances easily.
Just my .0000001
Tnx, JimL
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