Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 3 Apr 1997 20:20:02 -0500 (EST) | From | "Nicholas J. Leon" <> | Subject | Re: ext2 filesystem corruption?!?!?? |
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On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Doug Ledford wrote:
# Your choice of low-level controller driver for the attached hard # drives can greatly # impact this problem. I had a machine with an IDE drive and a Triton II # chipset. When I enabled the Triton DMA support, I would get corruption, # reliably, and under light load even. When I disabled the special drivers, # the corruption went away.
Indeed. I, too, suffered a plague of ext2 fs errors on an old FX mobo. I disabled "PCI Bridge Optimization" and the problem permanently went away.
This machine is now a very heavily loaded mail server (200+ sendmail processes at any given time, 150K+ messages/day, lotsa and lotsa access in /var/spool/mqueue) and hasn't hiccuped yet <knock on wood> :)
Granted, ext2 could probably use better error handling, but there's bound to be more to it than a resounding "ext2 sucks".
N! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nicholas J. Leon <nicholas@binary9.net> "Elegance through Simplicity" http://www.binary9.net/nicholas
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