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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Doug,<BR>
<BR>
Thanks for the info regarding ext3 file systems. With RH8, I did use<BR>
ext2 filesystems. This may explain one of the boxes with the kernel<BR>
panic, and may be related to the other box as well. I'll experiment<BR>
by making the problem disk partition an ext2 file system and see what happens.<BR>
(I have to reboot it daily and this is becoming a pain...)<BR>
I'll look into the details of RHE 3 update 3 to see what is needed...<BR>
If I cannot get it from Whitebox, I most likely can get the updates<BR>
from a CentOS update site, since they will work ( pretty sure ).<BR>
<BR>
I'll post the results to the list when available...<BR>
<BR>
thank,<BR>
<BR>
Ed<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
>Message: 10<BR>
>Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 14:08:02 -0700<BR>
>From: Ski Dawg <wb@skidawg.org><BR>
>Subject: Re: [WBEL-users] EXT3 file system problems with ASUS A7V<BR>
> motherboard<BR>
>To: whitebox-users@beau.org<BR>
>Message-ID: <1108242483.31902.27.camel@lapdawg><BR>
>Content-Type: text/plain<BR>
<BR>
>Sorry if this message comes through twice, I accidentally posted the<BR>
>first time from an account not subscribed to the list.<BR>
<BR>
>Edward Lauzier wrote:<BR>
>> I have two Athlon 650 MHZ boxes that are having problems since I've<BR>
>> upgraded them from RH 8 to WBEL 3R1. On one box, I'm only using the<BR>
>> IDE controllers on the motherboard and am now getting an ocassional<BR>
>> kernel panic saying that there is an ext3 file system writing problem.<BR>
<BR>
>We were having this same problem where I work on RedHat Enterprise 3<BR>
>Workstation systems. For us, the kernel panic happens when we try to<BR>
>reboot the system. After looking into it, we discovered that is it a<BR>
>know issue with RedHat, but they haven't been able to fix it (first saw<BR>
>this over a year ago).<BR>
<BR>
>Basically this happens when we write a lot of data (over 5 gigs within<BR>
>an hour) to an ext3 partition, then try to reboot the system. There is a<BR>
>bug within how RedHat is using ext3 that is causing the kernel panic<BR>
>when we rebooted the system.<BR>
<BR>
>We got around this issue by making the one area where we are writing a<BR>
>lot of data it own partition and then mounting that partition as ext2.<BR>
>You loose the journal capability of ext3, but the kernel panic went<BR>
>away.<BR>
<BR>
>Also, we have just started testing this with RHEL 3, update 3 and so far<BR>
>it is looking promising that they may have fixed this issue in this<BR>
>newer release.<BR>
<BR>
>HTH,<BR>
>--<BR>
>Doug<BR>
<BR>
>Registered Linux User #285548 (<A HREF="http://counter.li.org">http://counter.li.org</A>)<BR>
>----------------------------------------<BR>
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>Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.<BR>
> -- A.H. Weiler</FONT>
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