Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 24 Nov 2000 11:11:09 +0000 (GMT) | From | Tigran Aivazian <> | Subject | Re: ext2 filesystem corruptions back from dead? 2.4.0-test11 |
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I have seen ext2 filesystem corruption both on SCSI and IDE drives.
Tigran
On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, Mike Ricketts wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, Ion Badulescu wrote: > > > So I'm asking the same question, to all those who have seen unexplained > > filesystem corruption with 2.4.0: are you using IDE drives? If the answer > > is yes, can you check the logs and see if, at *any* point before the > > corruption occurred, the IDE driver choked and disabled DMA for *any* of > > your disks? > > I have both IDE and SCSI drives in my machine, but have only seen > corruption on the SCSI drives. That doesn't mean that the problem only > exists on the SCSI drives - they IDE ones are not frequently written to. > I have disabled DMA myself on all my IDE drives because if I enable it, > the IDE driver always chokes the first time they are anything like > hammered (well, it always used to - I haven't actually tried it recently). > >
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