From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 12:23:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 12:23:21 -0400 Received: from lightning.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.1]:1796 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 12:23:06 -0400 Subject: Re: massive filesystem corruption with 2.4.9 To: cwidmer@iiic.ethz.ch Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 17:26:04 +0100 (BST) Cc: kristian@korseby.net (Kristian), alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: from "Christian Widmer" at Aug 21, 2001 06:18:52 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL5] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > that it is a memory problem i also don't belive. that ram work for over 2 year > with no errors found with memtest (memtset86, intels memtest) compiling > seveal times xfree86 and an many many times several kernels. > > and i never had any problems. until i tried the first time a 2.4.x kernel on > the fileserver (that was 2.4.6). so i moved the fileserver back to 2.2.19. Nod. I can follow that reasoning, I've come across boxes that fialed with 2.4 with memory errors, but not 2.2. So far however those have all shown up with memtest86, or been Athlon optimisation triggered via things Curiouser and curiouser