drama wrote:Ran the long smart test from my bios (i assume that would be good enough). It passed. I did think about that though. Ive since did a reinstall on ext3 this time. And it seems to have cured the problem. Not sure if it was the reinstall or the fact that i went back to ext3 that cured the problem though. Even compiled the latest kernel from the git tree before i reinstalled. That didnt help. Im beginning to think that perhaps ext4 isnt quite realy yet. The speed improvement is amazing though with ext4. It didnt happen until i deleted a rather large file (approx 8.5gb...was a dvd d/l image). So maybe ext4 has issues with larger files.
I have to agree with you on the speed gain typically with ext3 I get around 50, 60 MB/s tops (ext4 on karmic):
I haven't scrapped any large files so I cant say weather or not I would get the hammer or not I am glad you got it fixed none the less.