Jamie Lokier wrote:

Al Boldi wrote:

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Jamie Lokier wrote:

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Al Boldi wrote:

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ext3 is rock-solid!

If only.  Recently I had a system come up after a power cycle with a
directory where reading any file in that directory gives an I/O error.
The disk is fine, and it's using ext3 in ordered mode, with IDE
write-caching disabled to be sure.

2.4.26, uclinux - it's an embedded device.

Doing an fsck before mounting would be an unacceptable boot-time delay.

Why do you suggest that, specifically for 2.4?  Is there a known
problem with 2.4 and ext3?

I saw this at least once on 2.4.18. A forced fsck on reboot fixed it.
2.4.31 looks ok.

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Al