From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 1 Aug 2001 22:32:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 1 Aug 2001 22:32:04 -0400 Received: from da01a-srvutl01.arcommunications.net ([216.168.64.3]:54172 "HELO smtp1.arcip.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Wed, 1 Aug 2001 22:31:50 -0400 Message-ID: <3B685B3C.A40AD2C@gxt.com> Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 21:40:44 +0200 From: Mohamed DOLLIAZAL Organization: GX-Technology X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12-20 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox Cc: Andreas Dilger , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.4.2 ext2fs corruption status In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alan Cox wrote: > > It may be that Red Hat has already released a new kernel RPM since that > > time, or maybe you need to compile a new kernel. > > The official VIA workaround fix is now in 2.4.6ac5 and 2.4.7ac*. The fixes > in the older kernels were mostly going to do the job but I dont know if they > were perfect for all cases > > The -ac kernel tree also contains important fixes that avoid DMA timeouts > potentially causing disk corruption by forgetting to write sectors Hi Alan, I'am sorry I forgot to mention that the filesystem corruption happened on SCSI disks. I guess there is no DMA on the SCSI disks. Do you think that the VIA fixes that are included in the 2.4.6ac5 kernel or above may solve my problem. Thanks for your help, Mohamed.