2003-04-01 01:15:41

by Samuel Flory

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Subject: File system corruption under 2.4.21-pre5-ac1

I'm seeing filesystem corruption on a number of intel SE7501wv2's
under 2.4.21-pre5-ac1. The systems are running Cerberus (ctcs). They
fail the kcompile, and memtst tests.


At 1st I thought it was memory, but the systems are fine under
memtest86, and the Cerberus memtst failures disappear if I turn off my
swap devices. The kcompile failures seem to point to random file
corruption from copying the kernel tree. (Cerberus copies a new copy of
the kernel for each compile.)

I suspect the aic79xx driver as:

1)I've running ctcs with the same kernel on 100+ SE7501wv2 with ide drives.
2)This occurs under reiserfs, and ext3.
3)I've been using 2.4.21-pre5-ac1 to burnin systems for quite some time.

--
There is no such thing as obsolete hardware.
Merely hardware that other people don't want.
(The Second Rule of Hardware Acquisition)
Sam Flory <[email protected]>



2003-04-01 02:15:43

by Justin T. Gibbs

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Subject: Re: File system corruption under 2.4.21-pre5-ac1

> I'm seeing filesystem corruption on a number of intel SE7501wv2's under
> 2.4.21-pre5-ac1. The systems are running Cerberus (ctcs). They fail the
> kcompile, and memtst tests.

Are you running the aic79xx driver version embedded in that kernel version
or the latest from my site?

http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gibbs/linux/SRC/

--
Justin