Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 06 Dec 2000 11:31:22 -0500 | From | Skip Collins <> | Subject | Re: system hang and corrupt ext2 filesystem with test12-pre5 |
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"Udo A. Steinberg" wrote:
> What drive are you using? AFAIR, Andre Hedrick once said certain Maxtor > drives aren't quite safe with DMA.
Using an IBM 45GB udma5 capable drive. The problems only occur under _heavy_ disk activity. I have -d 1 -c 3 -m 16 set.
Have you tried thrashing your drive for an extended time? Try repeatedly copying more than one GB file simultaneously.
Perhaps this is not relevant, but I have only run into the problem when manipulating vmware virtual disk files in some way, both inside and outside of vmware itself. This is probably because these are the only large files I have dealt with since installing a 2.4 kernel. But could some aspect of the structure of these files, such as large holes, be triggering the corruption?
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