Bug 97833
| Summary: | (IDE PDC202XX_NEW)Data corruption with Promise FastTrak and latest 2.4.20-18.7smp kernel | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Matthias Saou <matthias> |
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Arjan van de Ven <arjanv> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.3 | CC: | alan, wtogami |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i686 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2004-09-30 15:41:11 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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After upgrading to the latest errata kernel, 2.4.20-18.7smp, some Intel 1U servers with an onboard Promise FastTrak IDE RAID controller started experiencing sudden data corruption on some partitions, a few days after the upgrade. None of the servers still running 2.4.18-24.7.xsmp or 2.4.18-27.7.xsmp showed problems, and all servers had been running for 4-5 months with no similar problems prior to that. Here are the most common log entries encountered : Jun 20 23:25:07 erpweb05 kernel: EXT3-fs error (device ataraid(114,7)): ext3_new_block: Allocating block in system zone - block = 6586369 Jun 20 23:25:07 erpweb05 kernel: EXT3-fs error (device ataraid(114,7)): ext3_new_block: Allocating block in system zone - block = 6586376 Jun 20 23:25:08 erpweb05 kernel: EXT3-fs error (device ataraid(114,7)): ext3_new_block: Allocating block in system zone - block = 6586377 Jun 20 23:25:08 erpweb05 kernel: EXT3-fs error (device ataraid(114,7)): ext3_new_block: Allocating block in system zone - block = 6586378 Jun 20 23:25:08 erpweb05 kernel: EXT3-fs error (device ataraid(114,7)): ext3_new_block: Allocating block in system zone - block = 6586379 The symptoms were the same for all 3 servers that suffered corruption : At once, one partition starting having severe problems, when it was /var not much happened, but when it was /usr many processes started dying. Running fsck then trashes most of the filesystem, and many many directories end up as #<some number> in lost+found. Here is the detailed hardware and kernel module information : 00:02.0 RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc. 20267 (rev 02) Subsystem: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 3410 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 19 I/O ports at 1400 [size=8] I/O ports at 1408 [size=4] I/O ports at 1410 [size=8] I/O ports at 140c [size=4] I/O ports at 1440 [size=64] Memory at fe7a0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K] Expansion ROM at fe7e0000 [disabled] [size=64K] Capabilities: [58] Power Management version 1 # df Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/ataraid/d0p1 202220 135856 55924 71% / none 515264 0 515264 0% /dev/shm /dev/ataraid/d0p7 497829 8239 463888 2% /tmp /dev/ataraid/d0p5 3067568 345672 2566068 12% /usr /dev/ataraid/d0p8 72975932 19856400 49412536 29% /var # lsmod Module Size Used by Not tainted nfs 86048 1 (autoclean) lockd 55904 1 (autoclean) [nfs] sunrpc 79252 1 (autoclean) [nfs lockd] eepro100 20720 1 iptable_filter 2464 1 (autoclean) ip_tables 14464 1 [iptable_filter] ide-cd 30208 0 (autoclean) cdrom 32384 0 (autoclean) [ide-cd] usb-ohci 20896 0 (unused) usbcore 74400 1 [usb-ohci] pdcraid 14144 5 ataraid 8736 5 [pdcraid] ext3 67392 3 jbd 51528 3 [ext3] All servers are now downgraded to 2.4.18-27.7.xsmp. Matthias