Joe Feise wrote:

> Jonathan Briggs writes:
>
>> On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 07:34 -0800, Joachim Feise wrote:
>> [...]
>>
>>> This is a production machine that I can't take offline for too long.
>>> But yes, I have compiled the kernel on another reiser4 partition
>>> over night,
>>> without problems.
>>> If this was a memory problem, it would indeed manifest itself in
>>> other areas
>>> with more or less random errors. The fact that it does not indicates
>>> to me that
>>> this is a fs problem. So, at this point I am ruling out a memory issue.
>>
>>
>> And if it's a production machine, it is using ECC RAM, I would hope.  If
>
>
> Indeed, it does. Dell gets that right on server machines, at least...
> I have now recreated the fs on that partition, and played the data
> back from backup, and it works fine. I have made a copy of the old
> partition with dd, to be able to run some more tests when I have time.
> -Joe
>
>
Well, if it is ECC RAM, then we should probably assume it is a bug. 
Sigh.  Vs, can you look at it?

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