Ext3 users - Nov 2001 - serious file system corruption with 2.4.14 and ext3 patch

I am using 2.4.14 and the ext3 patch to go along with it and yesterday
I got the following error.

Nov 16 20:14:19 ccs kernel: EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,72)): ext3_new_block:
Allocating block in system zone - block = 394173

Well, I immediately went into maintainance mode and checked the file
system and there were plenty of errors including a duplicate block and
other stuff.

I am not sure, is this ext3's fault, vm or some other problem?

Any assistance would be appreciated.

-- 
         John Covici
         covici@ccs.covici.com

On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 04:46:00AM -0500, John Covici
wrote:
> I am using 2.4.14 and the ext3 patch to go along with it and yesterday
> I got the following error.
> 
> Nov 16 20:14:19 ccs kernel: EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,72)):
ext3_new_block: Allocating block in system zone - block = 394173
> 
> Well, I immediately went into maintainance mode and checked the file
> system and there were plenty of errors including a duplicate block and
> other stuff.
> 
> I am not sure, is this ext3's fault, vm or some other problem?
> 
> Any assistance would be appreciated.
> 
memtest86.

badblocks (read only)

other hardware tests.

ext2 only kernel

lspci -vvv to list...

These tests need to be done in the order listed.  Then we can help.