Re: 2.4.5 data corruption

2001-06-19 Thread Alan Cox
> Sometimes it takes either the kernel tree or our website some time to get > in 'sync' with the latest driver version. The latest driver version is > 1.02.00.007. > > There may be DAC960 like /proc support at some point for GUI haters. Publishing enough info to let people write a GPL non gu

Re: 2.4.5 data corruption

2001-06-19 Thread Pedro M. Rodrigues
On 19 Jun 2001, at 5:00, Stefan Traby wrote: > On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 07:20:06PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > > Folks, I believe I have a reproducible test case which corrupts > > > data in 2.4.5. > > > > 2.4.5 has an out of date 3ware driver that is short > > > + 1.02.00.007 - Fix possible nu

Re: 2.4.5 data corruption

2001-06-19 Thread Alan Cox
> Well, I do not understand how the driver is distributed. > The actual 3ware stuff won't compile on 2.4.x, and the stuff in kernel > is always different from 3ware releases. The stuff in the -ac tree is directly from 3ware - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel"

Re: 2.4.5 data corruption

2001-06-18 Thread Stefan Traby
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 07:20:06PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > Folks, I believe I have a reproducible test case which corrupts data in > > 2.4.5. > > 2.4.5 has an out of date 3ware driver that is short > + 1.02.00.007 - Fix possible null pointer dereferences in tw_ioctl(). > + R

Re: 2.4.5 data corruption

2001-06-15 Thread Larry McVoy
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 11:54:20PM +0400, Eugene Crosser wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> any problems since 2.4.5 was published, they seem to have surfaced > >> immediately after I created a rather big file capturing video with > >> broa

Re: 2.4.5 data corruption

2001-06-15 Thread Russell Leighton
Nuther anecdote: I was creating a big swapfile on ext2 (because 2.4.5 needs too much swap) with dd (SCSI disk on Sym53c8-something controller) and corrupted the partition THEN fsck would cause the kernel to panic. I thought I had some bad hw ... the box sits on my office floor waiting resurrecti

Re: 2.4.5 data corruption

2001-06-14 Thread Alan Cox
> any problems since 2.4.5 was published, they seem to have surfaced > immediately after I created a rather big file capturing video with > broadcast2000 (video card is bt848). Filesystem is ext2. Thats something I've seen reported elsehwere. The high bandwidth capture card stuff seems to show u

Re: 2.4.5 data corruption

2001-06-13 Thread Chris Mason
On Tuesday, June 12, 2001 01:17:49 PM -0700 Larry McVoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Folks, I believe I have a reproducible test case which corrupts data in > 2.4.5. > > We do nightly, weekly, and monthly backups by copying our entire /home > partition on the company file server: > > Filesyst

Re: 2.4.5 data corruption

2001-06-13 Thread Nathan Straz
On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 01:17:49PM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote: > Folks, I believe I have a reproducible test case which corrupts data in > 2.4.5. Why don't you send the test case to the list? I would love to try it out and it would be a good addition to LTP. -- Nate Straz

2.4.5 data corruption

2001-06-12 Thread Larry McVoy
Folks, I believe I have a reproducible test case which corrupts data in 2.4.5. We do nightly, weekly, and monthly backups by copying our entire /home partition on the company file server: FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 1.9G 1.7G 123M 93% / /dev/hd