Gordon Messmer wrote: > Gordon Messmer wrote: >> I opened bug 494927 with Red Hat after seeing this kernel error on two >> different hosts, just a few days after updating or installing CentOS 5.3: >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=494927 > > In an attempt to confirm this bug, I set up a system under KVM and > started three loops to generate filesystem activity. I ran bonnie++ as > two different users in separate directories under /var/tmp, and an > additional loop copying /usr to a directory under /var/tmp and then > removing it. The /var filesystem became corrupt relatively quickly. > > I'm now nearly certain that there is a severe filesystem corruption bug > in 2.6.18-128.1.6.el5. Please, if you are running this kernel, reboot > your systems into single user mode and check your filesystems with "fsck > -f". Your filesystems may appear clean despite corruption. My test > system exhibited this behavior. Even though the corruption should have Just to be clear, this corruption appears on the HOST, not inside the KVM virtual machine? Glenn