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SubjectRe: Massive e2fs corruption with 2.2.9/10?
In <Pine.LNX.3.95.990618170619.8352B-100000@ryjek.usis.minsk.by> Kastus Shchuka (pike@usis.minsk.by) wrote:

> On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Harald Koenig wrote:

>> On Jun 18, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>>
>> > >[eastep@eastep-3 eastep]$ cat /proc/version
>> > >Linux version 2.2.10 (eastep@eastep-3.mis.tandem.com) (gcc version
>> > >egcs-2.91.66
>> >
>> > Does the corruption go away if you use a compiler that is not known to
>> > miscompile the kernel, eg 2.7.2?
>>
>> I had at least two ext2fs corruptions plus two SIGSEGs due to bad bits
>> in binaries in buffer cache (emacs/mutt) and one full lockup,
>> all with 2.2.9/2.2.10 compiled with 2.7.2.3 (SuSE 6.1).

> Such thing happened to me once, but it traced back to a faulty SIMM. It
> was in the days of 2.0.2x kernel, computer in question is P166, 64 MB RAM,
> IWILL motherboard with built-in AIC 7880 SCSI.

> At some point I started experiencing problems with copying large (tens of
> MB) files. Small files (<1MB) copied quite OK. With big ones, the copy
> just differed from original. What's curious, memtest showed no errors on
> that computer, Windows also ran without problems with those SIMMs. I
> replaced faulty SIMMs with ECC ones, and I don't have any such problems
> for more than a year (knocking on wood)

The same here (ok I replaced SIMMs with regular ones). And yes, Windows worked
fine. AFAIK 2.2 is even more sensitive to broken RAM then 2.0 ... BTW I needed
only 50Mb file (with 64Mb RAM) to trigger it doing md5sum while much bigger
file was needed to trigger it with just copy...




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