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

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Message-ID: <2c0942db0902061050u4a854958u7e7a2db60e67baa6@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 6 Feb 2009 10:50:58 -0800
From:	Ray Lee <ray-lk@...rabbit.org>
To:	Manfred Wassmann <tux.wassmann@...glemail.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Spurious Filesystem corruption with ext3 + large (<400GB) hw RAID 
	partition + SMP

On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Manfred Wassmann
<tux.wassmann@...glemail.com> wrote:
> On 2/1/09, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br> 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 :-(

Huh. It may be related to whatever kernel version Ubuntu uses to boot
up the install media. Try a different version of Ubuntu (older, newer
if a newer one exists) to see if it has the same problem.
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