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From(Matthias Urlichs)
SubjectRe: ext2 corruption in 2.0.33
Date20 Mar 1998 12:32:33 +0100
  engelhardt steven daniel <sengelha@coewl.cen.uiuc.edu> writes:
> 	I, for one, have experienced ext2 corruption in 2.0.33 multiple
> times.  After reinstalling a bare system (again and again) and performing
> a very large number of downloads / compiles / fs access it
> invariably gives me ext2 block errors.  Unfortunately I don't have the

I've seen a few badly broken Ethernet cards out there which corrupt
busmaster read accesses if the CPU talks to them while a memory-to-disk
transfer is taking place. Thus the data on your HD gets corrupted while the
in-memory copy is still good, and the problem won't be noted until you
have flushed the data and need to read them back. :-(

-- 
Matthias Urlichs
noris network GmbH

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