[WBEL-users] EXT3 file system problems with ASUS A7V

[Edward Lauzier]

Doug,

Thanks for the info regarding ext3 file systems.  With RH8, I did use
ext2 filesystems.  This may explain one of the boxes with the kernel
panic, and may be related to the other box as well.  I'll experiment
by making the problem disk partition an ext2 file system and see what happens.
(I have to reboot it daily and this is becoming a pain...)
I'll look into the details of RHE 3 update 3 to see what is needed...
If I cannot get it from Whitebox, I most likely can get the updates
from a CentOS update site, since they will work ( pretty sure ).

I'll post the results to the list when available...

thank,

Ed


>Message: 10
>Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 14:08:02 -0700
>From: Ski Dawg <wb at skidawg.org>
>Subject: Re: [WBEL-users] EXT3 file system problems with ASUS A7V
>        motherboard
>To: whitebox-users at beau.org
>Message-ID: <1108242483.31902.27.camel at lapdawg>
>Content-Type: text/plain

>Sorry if this message comes through twice, I accidentally posted the
>first time from an account not subscribed to the list.

>Edward Lauzier wrote:
>> I have two Athlon 650 MHZ boxes that are having problems since I've
>> upgraded them from RH 8 to WBEL 3R1.  On one box, I'm only using the
>> IDE controllers on the motherboard and am now getting an ocassional
>> kernel panic saying that there is an ext3 file system writing problem.

>We were having this same problem where I work on RedHat Enterprise 3
>Workstation systems. For us, the kernel panic happens when we try to
>reboot the system. After looking into it, we discovered that is it a
>know issue with RedHat, but they haven't been able to fix it (first saw
>this over a year ago).

>Basically this happens when we write a lot of data (over 5 gigs within
>an hour) to an ext3 partition, then try to reboot the system. There is a
>bug within how RedHat is using ext3 that is causing the kernel panic
>when we rebooted the system.

>We got around this issue by making the one area where we are writing a
>lot of data it own partition and then mounting that partition as ext2.
>You loose the journal capability of ext3, but the kernel panic went
>away.

>Also, we have just started testing this with RHEL 3, update 3 and so far
>it is looking promising that they may have fixed this issue in this
>newer release.

>HTH,
>--
>Doug

>Registered Linux User #285548 (http://counter.li.org)
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