Hi,
Please CC me as I'm not subscribed to the kernel list.
I had a hard time identifying a serious problem in the 2.6 linux kernel.
It all started while evaluating RHEL4 for new servers. My data integrity
tests gave me bad results - which I couldn't believe - and my first idea
was - of course - bad hardware. I ordered new SCSI disks instead of the
IDE disks, took another server, spent some money again, tried again and
again. That's all long ago now...
In my tests I get corrupt files on LVM2 which is on top of software raid1.
(This is a common setup even mentioned in the software RAID HOWTO and has
worked for me on RedHat 9 / kernel 2.4 for a long time now and it's my
favourite configuration). Now, I tested two different distributions, three
kernels, three different filesystems and three different hardware. I can
always reproduce it with the following easy scripts:
LOGF=/root/diff.log
while true; do
rm -rf /home/XXX2
rsync -a /home/XXX/ /home/XXX2
date >> $LOGF
diff -r /home/XXX /home/XXX2 >> $LOGF
done
the files in /home/XXX are ~15G of ISO images and rpms.
diff.log looks like this:
Wed Aug 3 13:45:57 CEST 2005
Binary files /home/XXX/ES3-U3/rhel-3-U3-i386-es-disc3.iso and
/home/XXX2/ES3-U3/rhel-3-U3-i386-es-disc3.iso differ
Wed Aug 3 14:09:14 CEST 2005
Binary files /home/XXX/8.0/psyche-i386-disc1.iso and
/home/XXX2/8.0/psyche-i386-disc1.iso differ
Wed Aug 3 14:44:17 CEST 2005
Binary files /home/XXX/7.3/valhalla-i386-disc3.iso and
/home/XXX2/7.3/valhalla-i386-disc3.iso differ
Wed Aug 3 15:15:05 CEST 2005
Wed Aug 3 15:45:40 CEST 2005
Tested software:
1) RedHat EL4
kernel-2.6.9-11.EL
vanilla 2.6.12.3 kernel
filesystems: EXT2, EXT3, XFS
2) NOVELL/SUSE 9.3
kernel-default-2.6.11.4-21.7
filesystem: EXT3
Tested Hardware:
1)
- ASUS P2B-S board
- CPU PIII 450MHz
- Intel 440BX/ZX/DX Chipset
- 4x128M memory (ECC enabled)
- 2x IDE disks Seagate Barracuda 400G, connected to onboard "Intel PIIX4
Ultra 33"
- Promise Ultra100TX2 adapter for additional tests
2)
- DELL PowerEdge 1400
- CPU PIII 800MHz
- ServerWorks OSB4 Chipset
- 4x256M memory (ECC enabled)
- 2x U320 SCSI disks Maxtor Atlas 10K 146G
- onboard Adaptec aic7899 Ultra160 SCSI adapter
3)
- DELL PowerEdge 1850
- CPU P4 XEON 2.8GHz
- 2G memory
- 2x U320 SCSI disks Maxtor Atlas 10K 73G SCA
- onboard LSI53C1030 SCSI adapter
I've put some files toghether from the last test on the PE1850 server:
http://www.invoca.ch/bugs/linux-2.6-corruption-on-lvm2-on-raid1/
I've also filed a bug with RedHat:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=164696
I have spent a lot of time on this bug because I consider it very serious.
I'm not a kernel hacker but if there is anything I can do to fix this, let
me know.
Simon
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