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Subject: Re: 2.4.2 ext2fs corruption status
To: adilger@turbolinux.com (Andreas Dilger)
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 01:20:28 +0100 (BST)
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> 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