On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 06:22:56PM +0200, you [Jan Kara] wrote:
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> > Sorry for the sparse details, but when you have these kind of problems on
> > live servers, you tend to forget the debuggability...
>   Yes, I can understand that :). It's just that now it's hard to find
> out what has really happened. Anyway, thanks for your report.

If we are really lucky or unlucky it will happen again. 

Zeroed-out block just might be a kernel problem (SMP race, whatever) -
random corruption would more likely be a hardware problem. There were no IO
error either. But, 2.4 ext3 has been pretty extensively tested, so I don't
suppose that's likely either. And judging from
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/ChangeLog-2.4.3[45] there
haven't been many changes to ext3 lately either.
 


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