Simon May wrote: > Hi I'm hoping you maybe able to help > I have late last year converted all my machines to ext3 no problems > now I have one machine crashing once every 4 / 5 days > I have used a crash dump and see the following > > <0>Assertion failure in do_get_write_access() at transaction.c:589: > "handle->h_buffer_credits > 0" > > Search on this seems to indicate the problem maybe with ext3 journaling > system > > I'm considering upgrading to 2.4.20 I'm using 2.4.19 currently > but my reading indicates that this will not solve the problem > and may make it worst > > The only change I have made is to disable DMA for the disks > > Any advice would be welcome Hi Simon, well, I'm just the maintainer of the ext3 FAQ, not *the* ext3 guru. You will get much better answers from the ext3 mailing list, to where I forwarded your question. Regards, Juri _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
