From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0rc3) Gecko/20020531 Debian/1.0rc3-2 Description of problem: The kernel from RedHat AS2.1 caused an EXT3 Error, which then seemed to kill any process trying to access the filesystems. I built the kernel RPM on a Redhat 7.2 System simply buy doing a 'rpm -ba --target=i686 src.rpm' or so. The machine is a Quad Xeon 700Mhz w/ 8GB of RAM and 2 Mylex RAID controllers. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Linux usw-sf-db1 2.4.9-e.3enterprise #1 SMP Wed May 29 12:12:37 PDT 2002 i686 unknown How reproducible: Didn't try Actual Results: usw-sf-db1 kernel: Assertion failure in journal_write_metadata_buffer() at journal.c:372: "buffer_jdirty(jh2bh(jh_in))" Expected Results: should have worked properly. Additional info: This machine is a large postgresql database server.
The kswapd changes released in 2.4.9-e.12 fix this problem. Larry Woodman
Not sure if the original person who entered this bug has verified that it no longer occurs, and I don't have enough information on how to reproduce it myself, to make sure that it's gone.
As it's been about three months since this was supposed to be fixed, with no comments saying it's still broken, I'm closing this. If the problem still exists, please reopen.