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Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 10:42:36 +0100 From: Stefan Priebe - FH <studium@...fihost.com> To: David Chinner <dgc@....com> CC: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: XFS or Kernel Problem / Bug Hi! I've another idea... could it be, that it is a barrier problem? Since barriers are enabled by default from 2.6.17 on ... Stefan David Chinner schrieb: > On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 08:51:10AM +0100, Stefan Priebe - FH wrote: >> Hi! >> >> I'm not shure but perhaps it isn't an XFS Bug. >> >> Here is what i find out: >> >> We've about 300 servers at the momentan and 5 of them are "old" Intel >> Pentium 4 Machines with a DFI PM-12 Mainboard with VIA chipset. It only >> happens on THESE Machines. > > Hmmm - that points more to a hardware problem than a software problem; > crashes in generic_file_buffered_write() are relatively uncommon, and > to have them all isolated to a specific type of hardware is suspicious.... > > Wasn't there a major update of the IDE layer in 2.6.18? or was that > 2.6.19 that I'm thinking of? BTW, have you run memtest86 on these > boxes to rule out dodgy memory? > > Cheers, > > Dave. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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