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Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 23:11:35 +0200
From: Simon Matter <Simon.Matter@ch.sauter-bc.com>
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To: J Landman <landman@mediaone.net>
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Subject: Re: Problem fixed (I think)
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J Landman schrieb:

> Folks:
>
>   I had some problems with xfs that I think I fixed.  Basically I had
> cp/mv and others core dump rather than work.  What I did is I backed up my

Can you let me know on how many disks your filesystem was. And
was it IDE or SCSI. If IDE, what kind of chip and what kind of settings?

>
> xfs based data, rebuilt the raido, rebuilt the filesystem, and it now

Ah, RAID 0, so you have more than one disk? IDE? with DMA (enabled
for most chipsets by default in the RH7.1-XFS kernel?

> seems to work properly.  No core dumps.
>
>   I had built the original file system with the RedHat 7.1 iso based
> images, and tools.  I changed distros to Mandrake.  Thats when it broke.

What kernel did you use when it broke? Are you shure you know exactly
when it broke?

>
> So, using plain old 2.4.5 + patches under Mandrake, it is running fine
> (afte rthe little backup bit above).

>
>
>   During this time, I was unable to build the development tree (same
> crashes that everyone else was getting, using wither the 2.91.66 or the
> 2.96.3 compilers).  I was also unable to apply the patches to a 2.4.5-5mdk
> Mandrake source tree.  Got lots of rej's.  I am hoping that the work to

Did you check filesystem consistency somehow? For ex. with rpm -Va
which will show all changes in the distribution file?

>
> get it into the kernel accelerates, so we wont have the problems in the
> not too distant future.
>
>   Regardless of the minor annoyances, good work folks!
>
>  --
>  Joe Landman,
>  landman@mediaone.net

I was suffering filesystem corruption for awhile now and it was very
difficult
to reproduce it. In my case it is not XFS or Raid related but has something
to
do with the IDE subsystem.

Simon