Bjarne Thomsen wrote: >I have a colleague who has just gotten a PC >based on the ASUS A7V266-E motherboard and >an 80GB IBM IDE disk for fast numerical work. >He is running LM 8.2 without modifications. >The IDE disk is partitioned into ext3 and xfs >partitions. / and /usr are ext3 are ext3, >the rest are xfs. In addition he has mounted >file systems on two different computers (A and B) using NFS. > >He has 3 times consistently been able to crash the >OS resulting in a file corruption on the IDE disk. > >This happened 3 out of 3 times when he copied a 16Mb >file from the file system on computer A to the file >system on computer B by the program cp on the PC >running LM 8.2. It has every time been an ext3 or ext2 >file system that has been corrupted (maybe a coincidence). > >Ist this problem caused by >(a) the VIA chipset? >(b) the AMD processor? >(c) the UDMA setting? >(d) the IDE driver? >(e) the ext2/ext3 FS? >(f) the NFS system? >(g) or something else? > >We should appreciate very much if any of you >could give us any advice on how to proceed. > >We have the advantage that we know how to >produce the corruption? > > -- Bjarne Thomsen > There where some threads about ths without any solutions yet though, see "Which is better choice ext3 or reiserfs for the filesystem" (there a several of them) and "XFS and Linux-Mandrake". I've got a P4 system with a Quantum Fireball 8GB and have all my fs in xfs, except /boot. I can reproduce it easily by doing an unclean shutdown. All my open files at the time of the crash, hang or power-off get corrupted (mostly kde config files in /home). I have a md8.1 with kernel 2.4.8. More and more problems like this are emerging it seems. Greetings, Guy.
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