From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264620AbTIIUyl (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Sep 2003 16:54:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264625AbTIIUyl (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Sep 2003 16:54:41 -0400 Received: from pc1-cwma1-5-cust4.swan.cable.ntl.com ([80.5.120.4]:40839 "EHLO dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264620AbTIIUyk (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Sep 2003 16:54:40 -0400 Subject: Re: wierd raid 1 problem From: Alan Cox To: Ying-Hung Chen Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <3F5E14FC.5090001@yingternet.com> References: <3F5E14FC.5090001@yingternet.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1063140808.30962.0.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.4 (1.4.4-5) Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2003 21:53:29 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Maw, 2003-09-09 at 18:59, Ying-Hung Chen wrote: > the corrupted files seem to 'recover' itself if i leave the machine > alone for a while or umount and mount back the filesystem. > > does anyone have this type of temperory file corruption problem? I > tested it against 2.4.2x kernel including the last vanilla 2.4.22 + xfs > patches, they all seem to have the same problem Classic symptoms of bad memory or a kernel bug corrupting data. See if the box passes memtest86 as a starter