Spurious Filesystem corruption with ext3 + large (<400GB) hw RAID partition + SMP

[Manfred Wassmann]

On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
<hmh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, 31 Jan 2009, Manfred Wassmann wrote:
>> I'm experiencing spurious filesystem corruption problems with ext3 on
>> a partition larger than 400 GB on a hardware SATA RAID.
>
> Please describe the SATA RAID hardware in a bit more detail.  Which
> SATA controller does it use?

It is a 3ware 9650SE initially supplied with a firmware version FE9X
3.08.00.029 but the problem remained after an upgrade to the current
version 4.06.00.004

> Also, have you made sure it is not caused by bad memory?

I didn't think it could be the memory because the problem occurs with
the 32bit kernel alone but what do you suggest? I only have remote
access to the system over the weekend.

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