Kernel bug causes EXT3 FS corruption?
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My machine runs 1 x 500 GB SATA EXT3 2 x 500 GB IDE EXT3 2 x 200 GB IDE EXT3 1 x 80 GB IDE EXT3 on a 2.6.25-2-686 / 2.6.26-1-686 kernel in a Debian distro. Lately, I've been having trouble with data integrity. The following usually happens: I want to copy a file to a harddrive, and I'm told that the drive is R/O. I unmount the drive and check for errors. FSCK asks me if I want to correct bad inodes, I say yes. When I inspect the harddrive, whole folders have been neatly renamed and restored to the `lost+found` folder, effectively becoming garbage. I lost another 300 G of data. The drives are all fairly new, and diagnostic software cannot find anything wrong with the hardware itself. I've lost about 1 TB of data so far, and I'm getting a bit irritated. So far, only the 2 500 GB IDE EXT3 drives have been affected, but I'm worried for the rest. I've been doing some digging, and the only thing I've been able to come up with that explains this is a thread on a Ubuntu forum (which I can't seem to locate right now; I'll provide a link later) in which it was stated that this behavior was due to a kernel bug, from kernel 2.6.15 upward. The bug was expected to be fixed in 2.6.27, but debian doesn't offer that upgrade yet, and I'm unsure whether that will provide a solution anyway. Do any of you know anything about this? Possible solutions perhaps? Thanks in advance! |
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I haven't seen any issues with EXT3 filesystems going corrupt and I'm currently running kernel 2.6.23. Never rule out hardware problems either, might not be the drives themselves, could be the controller they're attached to. Make sure there are no firmware updates for your hardware, I've seen these issues in the past with Read-Only drives due to such things and or other hardware malfunctions. So before you just blame the kernel, do more digging. |
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Well, thanks. I'll be at Compiling Kernels 101, and Upgrading Firmware Without Totaling Your System 101... |
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Said like a true gentoo user ... :p
I run EXT3 almost exclusively on a truck load of different (recent) kernels and have seen no issues. Not to say there aren't potential errors in code out there, but I've not heard of any. |
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04:01.0 Mass storage controller: Integrated Technology Express, Inc. IT/ITE8212 Dual channel ATA RAID controller (rev 13) It's set in passthrough mode, and has a bios revision some 3 years before the latest update. I've spent some time and a couple of CD's trying to find out how to flash its ROM, but fearing after a couple of unsuccessful attempts that I might end up disabling my mainboard, I've decided to take the n00bs way out and just buy some 1 TB SATA drives and replace the IDE controller with a better one so that I can at least copy the remaining data, and perhaps keep some backup storage space. Last question: any preferences as to what brand and model of controller I should buy? Is Promise any good? Thanks! |
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