IO lockups and ext3 readonly filecorruption on RHEL4 (pre a U4)

[Christian]

On Tue, 5 Sep 2006, tweeks wrote:
> Has anyone been seeing IO lockup problems on EL4?

not using RHEL here, but...

> A semi-busy system will suddenly go into some kind of IO la-la land where
> nothing can be written to disk for >1hour.

ok, so ext3 will remount the fs to RO. this would happen if a panic() 
occurs? is there anything related in the logs? (if /var is RO too, try 
to setup a loghost).

> Then when the system is rebooted, if the system is allowed to fsck, the
> journal is hosed and the filesystem eats itself.

coud you be more specific? what does fsck.ext3 say? is there something 
in lost+found? remember to use latest version of e2fsprogs. have you 
tried a vanilla kernel yet?

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