Re: ext3 fs corruption with 2.4.17

Matthias Andree (matthias.andree@stud.uni-dortmund.de)
Fri, 18 Jan 2002 17:18:49 +0100


On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, Christian Hammers wrote:

> Again problems with my filesystems (probably a mainboard/cpu problem).
> It is (^H^H^H was) a quite new ext3 fs that was created with 2.4.17 and the
> very latest (stable) e2fsprogs and journalling. The device 8,7 was /var so
> the most used partition for write activity, read activity was mainly under
> /usr/local).

Are you sure it's not your memory? Run memtest86; I recently had a box
screw up its filesystems because the DIMM went bad.

> > Jan 17 19:01:16 HOSTNAME kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sd(8,7)): ext3_new_block: Allocating block in system zone - block = 5931019
> [repeats several hundert times with increasing block numbers]

And that's what I got.

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