bad memory
Overnight I had another instance where one of my new disks with an ext3 filesystem in my fileserver remounted itself readonly due to errors. This was a week after the last one of which I had thought I’d finally gotten rid of the problem.. evidently enough, this was not the case.
Considering I had replaced most of the equipment in the machine already I was very quickly running out of reasons why I was receiving these ext3 problems. I don’t know why I didn’t think of it beforehand, but I decided to boot off a knoppix cd and do a memtest. Sure enough >3000 errors were found. This I think would have been a result of the original motherboard problem where it fried itself. I should have known better and checked this sooner, oh well… Needless to say this morning I went up the road and payed way too much for a new pair of dual channel memory for the box. A memtest later I had confirmed that this problem was fixed. So far things have been good, but given the past trend, it will take another week or two for me to know for sure if the problem has been resolved.
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