From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 07:59:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 07:59:30 -0400 Received: from be02.imake.com ([151.200.87.11]:26892 "EHLO be02.tfsm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 15 Jun 2001 07:59:21 -0400 Message-ID: <3B29F965.750B3DFE@247media.com> Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 08:02:45 -0400 From: Russell Leighton X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.4.5 data corruption In-Reply-To: <9gbdoa$cpi$1@pccross.average.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Nuther anecdote: I was creating a big swapfile on ext2 (because 2.4.5 needs too much swap) with dd (SCSI disk on Sym53c8-something controller) and corrupted the partition THEN fsck would cause the kernel to panic. I thought I had some bad hw ... the box sits on my office floor waiting resurrection. Eugene Crosser wrote: > In article , > Alan Cox writes: > >> Folks, I believe I have a reproducible test case which corrupts data in > >> 2.4.5. > > > > 2.4.5 has an out of date 3ware driver that is short > > These days I observed massive FS curruption on vanilla 2.4.5, > SCSI disk on Sym53c8-something controller (UW). I did not notice > any problems since 2.4.5 was published, they seem to have surfaced > immediately after I created a rather big file capturing video with > broadcast2000 (video card is bt848). Filesystem is ext2. > > Eugene > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- --------------------------------------------------- Russell Leighton russell.leighton@247media.com ---------------------------------------------------