SC1435 and jbd-1.1-multiarch-1.tar.gz

[Frank Warnke]

On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 12:00 -0400, James Hall wrote:
> 
> Does anyone have more information about this "urgent" fix:
> 
> jbd-1.1-multiarch-1.tar.gz
> 
> It is listed in the d/l section on the support site. It claims:
> 
> This is a replacement of the kernel module JDB that is used for ext3
> filesystem journaling
> 
> Under certain filesystem loads a corruption of kernel structures can
> take place. This contains a patch to resolve the issue
> ---
> 
> No further explanation is provided, or what kernels I should or should
> not apply this too. Only that:
> 
> This fix is for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 only, and supports both x86
> and x86_64
> 
> ...
> 
> I am leery of applying this update, I need a bit more convincing. Is
> it
> possible this was fixed in a newer kernel? 
> 
> We are at -  2.6.9-55.0.12.ELsmp x86_64
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jim
> 

This might help;

http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2005-
October/023054.html