RE: Serious ext3 file corruption in Taroon?

["nathan r. hruby" <nhruby uga edu>]

On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Michael Halligan wrote:

> Ahh. There's a linux-poweredge list..
> 

Yup, quite handy, thouse sometimes noisy.

> Hrm. So the so-called "level 3" support from redhat was basically a
> waste of money?  I hoped eventually there was a magic number at Dell I
> could call and have somebody say "Oh yeah, use this version of XX
> driver" .. But, judging my experience with Dell over the past 6 months,
> it just reaffirms my suspicions that all vendor software support
> contracts are worthless, and that Dell's hardware belongs in the bottom
> of a trash bin?
> 

I'm not sure how a support contract with Red Hat gets you support from
Dell.  If you have Dell boxes call Dell, if you have OS issues, call Red
Hat.  Sometimes the lines blur, and that's where linux-poweredge and this
list some in handy.

> I'll try all those steps, but my thoughts really are this is an ext3
> problem.. I've never received any scsi errors on these boxes, they just
> sort of kernel panic and never come back.
> 

I've seen similar things happen with Dell RAID controller problems.
That's where I'd place my money
 
-n
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