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Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 17:58:33 -0500
From: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bug in ext3
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On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 02:49:04PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> > > 
> > > Please run e2fsck (1.25) to clear this up.  It may be that you have other
> > > corruption in your filesystem.  If you are sure you _never_ tried ext3
> > > on this filesystem before, yet the has_journal bit is set, this could
> > > be an indication of memory or cable problems.
> > 
> > Uh, something corrupted it. Believe me, there is no other corruption.
> > I've reverted to a non-ext3 kernel, and after a day of serious IO, no
> > problems have shown. So something is wrong, and it isn't my filesystem
> > (the erroneous flag needs to be cleared, yes, but the fact remains that
> > there is a problem in this case).
> 
> Yes, true.
> 
> Can you try again with a journal in this FS with ext3?

Can't really do that. This is a production system. I will however try to
reproduce it on another system. If I can do that, I'll try your
suggestion.


Ben

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