Norman Schmidt <norman.schmidt@ratnet.stw.uni-erlangen.de> writes: > Per Andreas Buer schrieb: > > > I've been having file system corruption on a system with two Maxtor > > 120GB drives (Maxtor 4G120J6). Alan Cox suggested errors in the PDC20262 > > (Promise ATA66 controller) - but your posting here suggests that there > > is something fishy with the Maxtor drives and kernels > 2.4.18 (on my > > system, 2.4.18 runs fine - everything else eats my data). > > When your neverending fsck ends, try 2.4.18. You might want to report > > this on lkml. > > The ext3 developper strongly suggests three ext3-patches for 2.4.20 > kernels: http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/ext3/index.html The patches were of course applied. The corruption only occurs on the Maxtor drives - the other 3 disks (also IDE) where completely unaffected. The last week there have been several reports of corruption with 2.4.20 and large IDE drives. > > I have a server with a 160 GB partition on software RAID 5 over 4 80GB > Maxtor drives on 2 Promise Ultra133 TX2 controllers. Filesystem is ext3 > with an external journal (on RAID1 over part of 2 20 GB drives (IBM and > Maxtor) on the mainboard controller). I use a non-modular 2.4.20 kernel > with only the aforementioned patches applied. > > Intensive testing with bonnie and tiobench for 24h showed no errors, > although the server doesn´t have a very high load (used mainly as > samba-mounted partition for a W2k computer as digital videorecorder) > during normal operation. This does not help me much. :( -- Per Andreas Buer _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
