Re: 2.5.18 / ext3 / oracle trouble

[Andrew Morton]

Zlatko Calusic wrote:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> After lots of testing, I can say that 2.5.18 works great in all three
> modes of ext3 for all but one purpose. Oracle database still gets
> corrupted during insert load. More precisely, online redo log gets
> corrupted, database panics and restore is in order.
> 
> This leads me to thinking that there's something wrong with sysv
> shared memory in 2.5.x. Although the problem could also be in fsync()
> or swap_out() & co. paths, it's yet to be discovered.
> 
> It could also be that journaled mode helps the trouble, and it could
> be that some swapping makes it more certain, but none of these two
> facts are proved for sure. Take it as an observation.
> 
> Christoph, I don't know if you're still taking care of shmem in 2.5.x,
> so take my apologies if you didn't want to see this email.
> 

Are you able to try it on ext2?

Thanks.

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