linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.18-mm2: ext3 BUG?

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Date:	Sun, 8 Oct 2006 09:14:33 +0200
From:	Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@...-owl.de>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	sct@...hat.com, adilger@...sterfs.com, linux-ext3@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.18-mm2: ext3 BUG?

On Sun, 2006-10-08 08:33:30 +0200, Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@...-owl.de> wrote:
> Just to add, I've seen right this, too, on Debian's 2.6.17-2-686, with
> a 00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE
> (rev 01) (8086:7111) PATA controller with a ST3300822A disk. That's
> healthy from smartmontool's point of view. The machine has 192MB RAM, an
> Intel P3 processor and is idle during daytime, busy with fetching
> backups at night. I'm using this filesystem with faubackup, lots of
> small files, lots of hard links and a number of large files.  Some of
> the posts below mention large files, too.  My impression would be that
> it happens when unlink()ing large files.  Oh, and it's a LV, not a
> direct partition.

Another thing to add:  I don't think this corruption is related to the
PIIX4 controller. For some days (when we put the machines that were
backed-up into production), we tried to work with an external USB HDD.
(The backup box is off-site and only has limited bandwidth, so the
idea was to move the USB HDD to the main site if we were on fire
there. We gave up this idea due to too small USB performance.)

However, I've seen this problem twice with the USB-attached disk, too.
It's the exact same disk, we just threw away the case.

MfG, JBG

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