Gordon Messmer wrote:
> Gordon Messmer wrote:
>> I opened bug 494927 with Red Hat after seeing this kernel error on two
>> different hosts, just a few days after updating or installing CentOS 5.3:
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=494927
>
> In an attempt to confirm this bug, I set up a system under KVM and
> started three loops to generate filesystem activity. I ran bonnie++ as
> two different users in separate directories under /var/tmp, and an
> additional loop copying /usr to a directory under /var/tmp and then
> removing it. The /var filesystem became corrupt relatively quickly.
>
> I'm now nearly certain that there is a severe filesystem corruption bug
> in 2.6.18-128.1.6.el5. Please, if you are running this kernel, reboot
> your systems into single user mode and check your filesystems with "fsck
> -f". Your filesystems may appear clean despite corruption. My test
> system exhibited this behavior. Even though the corruption should have
Just to be clear, this corruption appears on the HOST, not inside the KVM virtual machine?
Glenn
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