Ext3 users - Jan 2002 - filesystem corruption

All,
I recently heard that the ext3 filesystem (and possibly other journalled
filesystems) experience data loss/corruption on certain laptops w/ hard
drives that engage in non-standard caching behavior.  Has anyone else
heard of/experienced this?  If so, on what hardware, and is there a fix?
Regards,
Derek R.
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On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 02:21:58PM -0600, Derek Richardson
wrote:
> All,
> I recently heard that the ext3 filesystem (and possibly other journalled
> filesystems) experience data loss/corruption on certain laptops w/ hard
> drives that engage in non-standard caching behavior.  Has anyone else
> heard of/experienced this?  If so, on what hardware, and is there a fix?
Archives, they're a beautiful thing:

  http://store.redhat.com/mailing-lists/ext3-users/index.html

It would be nice if the search engine worked better;
for older stuff you can use Google instead and prefix your
search with

   site:store.redhat.com ext3-users

See Stephen's comments here:

  http://store.redhat.com/mailing-lists/ext3-users/msg02433.html

The thread starts here:

  http://store.redhat.com/mailing-lists/ext3-users/msg02425.html

Regards,

   Bill Rugolsky