[Samba] Possible Filesystem Corruption with Samba 3.0.25a (with XFS and LVM)

Adam Tauno Williams adamtaunowilliams at gmail.com
Tue Jun 26 17:20:08 GMT 2007


On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 12:00 -0400, Charles Marcus wrote:
> On 6/26/2007, Andri (aoeuid at gmail.com) wrote:
> > I've done occasional memtests for a few days straight, and all have
> > ended successfully. If it wasn't one of those one-in-a-quintillion
> > chances that the sun flipped the necessary bits in memory, I'm
> > betting on software bugs.
> Memtest is hardly a reliable test for memory. I have had bad memory pass 
> test for days on end.
> The best way I've ever found to reliably find bad memory is compile 
> something big, like X. If your memory is bad, you'll find out pretty 
> quick...

The real solution is to use ECC memory. :)

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