Bug#310243: kernel-image-2.6.8-powerpc: xfs data corruption
On 6/4/05, Joerg Rossdeutscher <ratti@gesindel.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I found your bug report in the debian bugtracker:
> #310243 kernel-image-2.6.8-powerpc: xfs data corruption
>
> I have the same problem with this kernel version on an amd64 ubuntu.
> Have you found a way to fix it?
>
> My machine is a IMAP/SMTP/POP3 server and crashes only about once a
> month, so it's very hard to debug.
>
> TIA,
>
> bye, Ratti
Unfortunately I have not found a solution to this problem. I'm not
sure if the problem is because the drive is bad (which could be), a
limitation of the Mac's BIOS (after 19GB of data it gets corrupted) or
what.
I believe that I have rule out the possibility that XFS had anything
to do with it. This is because I have reformatted the drive using
various other filesystems (I even wrote zeros to the whole drive usind
dd and /dev/zero and then reformatted the drive using badblocks and
ext3). No matter what I did, the drive always went back to be
corrupted after writing a given number of gigs (copying UTF8 encoded
filenames from another Macintosh running MacOS X. I'm not sure if this
is why this happens).
I have since removed the drive from the computer. I'll put it back in
a x86 system and see if it works. That way I will rule out whether
it's the drive that has problems or the BIOS of the Powerpc system
that has limitations. Though that drive is 40GB an there is already
another 40GB drive in that same computer (this was set as a slave in
the same IDE bus).
Feel free to lower this bug report's level to "low" or less until I
can find out what the problem is....
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