On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 14:45 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Alessandro Suardi wrote: > > > > No idea whether this can be a data point or not, but > > here it goes... my P2P box is about to turn 5 days old > > while running nonstop one or both of aMule 2.1.3 and > > BitTorrent 4.4.0 on ext3 mounted w/default options > > on both IDE and USB disks. Zero corruption. > > > > AMD K7-800, 512MB RAM, PREEMPT/UP kernel, > > 2.6.19-git20 on top of up-to-date FC6. > > It _looks_ like PREEMPT/SMP is one common configuration. > > It might also be that the blocksize of the filesystem matters. 4kB > filesystems are fundamentally simpler than 1kB filesystems, for example. > You can tell at least with "/sbin/dumpe2fs -h /dev/..." or something. > > Andrei - one thing that might be interesting to see: when corruption > occurs, can you get the corrupted file somehow? And compare it with a > known-good copy to see what the corruption looks like?
the corrupted file has a chink full with zeros http://193.226.119.62/corruption0.jpg http://193.226.119.62/corruption1.jpg - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
