Re: 2.4.18 assertion failure in journal_commit_transaction

[Adam Kropelin]

On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 02:30:07PM -0400, Brett Dikeman wrote:
> Greetings all.
> 
> I'm helping a company which just installed Redhat 7.3 on several 
> systems(Compaq dl380G2, dual proc systems.)  They are running the smp 
> kernel that came with the distro(versioned 2.4.18-3; -4 is out, but I 
> reviewed the changelogs and it didn't look like they did anything 
> that would affect this problem, but I really couldn't tell.)  ext3 
> for all filesystems, hardware raid 0+1 via the Compaq controller.

Uh, what changelog did you read?

Redhat seems pretty clear that 2.4.18-3 + ext3 + SMP = bad

The errata describing 2.4.18-4 is here:
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2002-085.html

--Adam