On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Johannes Hirte <johannes.hirte@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Is there anything wrong with your disks or memory? >> Sometimes the bad memory can break the filesystem. I have met this kind of >> problem some time ago. > > I don't think that's the case. I've checked the RAM with memtest86+ and got no > errors. I got the errors with two different disks, the first one with btrfs the > second one now with XFS. Before changing to the second disk, I've run > badblocks on it to be sure it has no errors. You might also try kmemcheck. There's a good chance that a bug that scribbles random memory shows up as FS corruption. I have had ext4 corruption due to an inotify bug, which kmemcheck found on the first try. -- Bob Copeland %% www.bobcopeland.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
