Re: [SCARED] Is ext2 unreliable?

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Tue May 16 2000 - 08:42:56 EDT

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    > And this came after 15 days of uptime. It just did not free up space, that
    > is what I happened to notice ant then this.
    >
    > How can this happen???
    >
    > I have 2.2.14pre14 with usb raid and ide patches, the partition was on a
    > raid0 over 4 disks two occupying the two PIIX4 channes on the
    > motherboard (UDMA2), two on the CMD648 (UDMA4).

    1. You are using usb patches
    2. You are using raid patches
    3. You are using ide patches.

    > Would please somebody explain, how this could have happened?

    It could be a bug in any of the above. It could be a problem with the disk.
    It could be a problem with the ram. It could be a problem with the cabling.
    It could be a bug in the mmainstream kernel.

    You can eliminate some of these by load testing the machine (memtest86
    then kernel building). Try running without the usb/raid patches. etc

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