[Bug 453579] Re: corruption of large files reported with linux 2.6.31-14.46 on ext4

[Scott James Remnant]

On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 14:57 +0000, Bob McElrath wrote:

> I have seen problems like this with large files on multiple fs's and
> ultimately it was a RAM problem.  Scott, can you run memtester and/or
> memtest86 at bootup to verify that you don't have bad RAM?  Is your CPU
> overclocked?  CPU errors can also be detected with burn* programs
> (cpuburn package).  A rare RAM problem can cause bitflips that you
> wouldn't notice except in large files.
> 
Running memtest was one of the first things I did ;-)  Likewise I
performed a read/write test of the drive and it was fine

Scott
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Scott James Remnant
scott at ubuntu.com

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in-place corruption of large files *without fsck or reboot* reported with linux 2.6.31-14.46 on ext4
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/453579
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