Hi, On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 11:05:07PM -0400, Tom Diehl wrote: > On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > > On Apr 30, 2002 21:54 -0400, Tom Diehl wrote: > > > > It looks like you were getting garbage from the disk before the journal > > assertion happened (i.e. the ext3 error), and the journal assertion is > > just there to save your filesystem from getting corrupted with further > > bad operations. > > > > > This is a stock 7.2 system with all revelant updates. > > > Not sure what other info to provide so if I missed something please let me > > > know. > > > > I would really recommend upgrading to the latest RH errata kernel. The > > ext3 code has had a number of bugs fixed since 2.4.9. It might also be > > related to IDE stuff, don't know. > > AFAIK 2.4.9-31 is their latest errata kernel. Just checked the ftp site and > that is the latest one there, although the roumer mill would suggest this > might change shortly. I could upgrade to their beta kernel I suppose. Yes, the fix happened in 2.4.17+ or so, and is in the rawhide kernels. It won't help you much --- it just handles the disk error a bit more gracefully, but the underlying problem is still a disk or driver problem. > So am I understanding you correctly that there is still no good way to tell if this > was hdwe or a software failure? It is either hardware or the driver. It is not the filesystem: the filesystem is simply detecting the problem. Trying the rawhide kernel might be useful, because it includes updated IDE code which does handle some controllers a bit better. Cheers, Stephen
