Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 06 Dec 2000 09:48:16 -0500 | From | Skip Collins <> | Subject | system hang and corrupt ext2 filesystem with test12-pre5 |
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After running 2.4.0-test11 for a while, my system would occasionally hang during heavy disk activity resulting in a corrupt ext2 filesystem. Fortunately, none of the damage has been irrecoverable. I checked linux-kernel to see if anyone else was seeing the same thing. The recent threads on corruption seemed to be consistent with the behavior I saw: ide disk access light remains lit, system hangs, fsck finds bad inodes. I think test12-pre5 was supposed to fix the problem. But after upgrading my kernel, I can still get the errors.
I have a 900MHz Athlon/Asus A7V mobo system with an onboard ata100 promise controller. I have only had problems when my ata100/udma5 harddrive is connected to the promise controller. Using the ATA66 ide bus eliminates the problem. I typically see the corruption when copying large (~1GB) files such as vmware virtual disks. It also happens frequently inside vmware when doing heavy disk access things like installing software or defragging a win2000 virtual disk.
For now I am going to fall back to the slower ide bus. But I wanted to let people know that there still may be problems with ext2 corruption in the latest test kernel.
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