Hi Eric,
Thanks for your reply. Isn't this true that when I tell the installer
to check for bad blocks on the drive, it should check it? Or is that
check not dependable? When I installed ext3/xfs I asked the installer to
check my maxtor before it installed anything and it did not complain.
I am guessing that this problem is related to the kernel somehow and
many posts have been diverted to the fact that the hardware was messed
up (When I tried to find a solution at google, except for one person
who questioned the kernel, the rest all assumed that the hardware
was at fault; This person moved back to RedHat 2.2-xxx and solved his
problem, if I remember correctly). Of course I might be completely wrong
in my guess...
I don't know what to make out of it, but certainly RedHat not supporting
XFS is pain...And I'll soon look for a hard disk checking utility that
is better than the one on the red hat installation CDs...
On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 01:09:57AM -0400, Piyush Kumar wrote:
>> Are there any rpms available for the redhat kernel 2.4.20-20.9 with
>> xfs?
>
>You can get them from
>
> http://atrpms.physik.fu-berlin.de/name/kernel/
>
> but I doubt that they would make any difference to the problem you
describe. Anyway, you may want to rule that possibility 100% out.
> I'd be surprised to see that problem go away with an upgrade to 20.x
based RH kernels.
I went to this site and I already have the latest merged patches of
XFS+Redhat on a CD that
I use to install redhat. (1st disk) It's a cool site. Thanks to
whosoever maintains it...
Thanks and Best Wishes,
--Piyush
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Sandeen [mailto:sandeen@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2003 4:48 PM
> To: Piyush Kumar
> Cc: 'Net Llama!'; linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: XFS Patches for redhat kernel
>
>
> A bit OT, but most drive vendors have drive tests that you
> can download and run, some even run under linux; if not, many
> can be run from a dos boot floppy. They can read the
> S.M.A.R.T. data off the drive, and tell you with a good
> degree of certainty whether you have hardware problems or not.
>
> Just because you see hardware errors when using xfs and not
> when using ext3 doesn't mean that xfs is in any way at fault;
> drive access patterns could be quite different between the two.
>
> -Eric
>
> > After getting fed up, I reinstalled "/" as ext3 on /dev/h da
> > (My Maxtor hard drive) and checked
> > for bad sectors this time while installation. /dev/sda(3ware RAID)
> > still has my home directories and has XFS on it.
> > Everything went thru well (as I was expecting) and my
> > redhat is running for now.
>
>
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