Don't know if it relates, but I once had ext3 curdling caused by a
system firmware defect that changed how the BIOS reported disk sizes to
the kernel ... it would work fine provided I always booted cold,
inclusive-or never used a particular video mode. Once in the state, the
reported disk size was
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> Yeah, VMware can't deal very well with host-side platform problems. :)
>
> How sure are you that VMware Server 1.04 works on Windows XP 64 SP2? I'm
> running VMware Workstation *6* on my AMD64 box -- I haven't messed with
> the free server in a while and I've never t
Gerard J. Cerchio wrote:
> M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
>> 1. Define "curdle their ext3 disk".
>>
> I use the word curdle to describe a disk with lost inodes, sectors that
> are multiply allocated, and other such problems that fsck valiantly
> tries to correct but winds up with a non-working s
This reminds me of a situation I ran into about a zillion years ago,
using V6 Unix: The filesystem and the swapper disagreed about the
boundary between the FS and swap areas, so parts of the FS were getting
swapped onto.
I suppose something like that might be possible with certain
pathologic
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> 1. Define "curdle their ext3 disk".
>
I use the word curdle to describe a disk with lost inodes, sectors that
are multiply allocated, and other such problems that fsck valiantly
tries to correct but winds up with a non-working system. In the last
case I got a
Gerard J. Cerchio wrote:
> In the short time I have been working with olpc I have had my Fedora
> VMware machines curdle their ext3 disks 3 times.
>
> I have been running 2.4 and 2.6 Redhats and Debians for over a year with
> no such problems. Once the first Fedora 7 machine broke its disk I hav
Gerard J. Cerchio wrote:
> Does the jhbuild emulator do any exotic direct to disk IO that may be
> causing this?
Not that I know of.
> Does Fedora aggressively modify its ext3, vfs or SCSI drivers?
The Fedora kernel is very close to the upstream.
> Has anyone else seen this kind of problem?
In the short time I have been working with olpc I have had my Fedora
VMware machines curdle their ext3 disks 3 times.
I have been running 2.4 and 2.6 Redhats and Debians for over a year with
no such problems. Once the first Fedora 7 machine broke its disk I have
been very careful to shutdown ev
In the short time I have been working with olpc I have had my Fedora
VMware machines curdle their ext3 disks 3 times.
I have been running 2.4 and 2.6 Redhats and Debians for over a year with
no such problems. Once the first Fedora 7 machine broke its disk I have
been very careful to shutdown ev
