Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: 2.5.46 ext3 errors

[Jens Axboe]

On Wed, Nov 06 2002, Ewan Mac Mahon wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 02:05:21PM +0100, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 06 2002, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> > > 
> > > error is just ext3's normal reaction to a fatal error detected in the
> > > filesystem, so that in itself isn't a worry.  The cause of the problem
> > > it spotted is the worry; is this reproducible?
> > 
> > I can try. The kernel run had my rbtree deadline patches, however
> > they've been well tested and are likely not the cause of the problem. It
> > cannot be 100% ruled out though, I'm testing for this very thing right
> > now. I will let you know what happens.
> 
> I think I can rule that out, I've got much the same[1] from a vanilla 
> 2.5.46, and the filesystem's recent history has been plain 2.5.XXs as 
> well.

Interesting, so it smells like a generic problem. I cannot reproduce it
on my test box (been running kernel compiles and dbenches all afternoon)
with the same kernel. I've got 2.5.46-BK on the desktop again now, we'll
see what happens....

For the record, test box is P3-800MHz SMP, 512MiB RAM. Desktop is a
MP1800+ SMP, 1GiB of RAM.

-- 
Jens Axboe