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Subject: Re: 2.5: ext3 bug or dying drive?
From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
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On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 17:03, Andrew Morton wrote:

> Were there no I/O error messages reported from the device driver,
> block, buffer or pagecache layer?  Generally everyone like to have
> a shout as one flies past.

Nope.  Odd, eh?

Only log item of relevance was

	(scsi0:A:0:0): Locking max tag count at 64

which I get every now and then anyhow.

> It would be useful to give the IO system a bit of a thrashing,
> to narrow the problem down.  Just a `cat /dev/sda[n] > /dev/null'
> would suit.

2.4 survived this fine.  Looking like its not the disk, then.  I will
try this in 2.5 once I backup some data and finish some work.

I should note I have been running this machine with 2.5 for about a
month now with no problems and my development machines have been 2.5
since, uh, 2.5.1 but they are all IDE not SCSI.

> Bottom line: dunno.

Me neither.  Quite an anomaly.

	Robert Love

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