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From: Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Rogier Wolff <R.E.Wolff@bitwizard.nl>
Cc: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, adilger.kernel@dilger.ca,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Regular ext4 error warning with HD in USB dock
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 09:15:16 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101228141516.GH10149@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101228081917.GA1351@bitwizard.nl>

On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 09:19:17AM +0100, Rogier Wolff wrote:
> > That's actually not an error.  It's a report which is generated every
> > 24 hours, indicating that there has been 3 errors since the last time
> > the error count has been cleared, with the first error taking place at
> > Sat Nov 6 10:27:57 2010 (US/Eastern) in the function
> > ext4_journal_start_sb(), at line 251, and the most recent error taking
> > place at Sat Nov 6 18:02:28 2010 (US/Eastern), in the function
> > ext4_put_super() at line 719.  This is a new feature which was added
> > in 2.6.36.
> 
> Nice. But the issue you're not mentioning is: What errors could have 
> happened on the 6th of november? Should Con worry about those errors?

It looks like those errors were probably caused by I/O errors while
writing to the journal.  Maybe due to a flakey USB connection,
perhaps?  It would be useful to look at the /var/log/messagfes around
that date to get a more detailed look.

> OK, the chances are that he has rebooted since november, and that an
> older fsck fixed the errors, but not cleared the "fs errror log". Would
> these errors have triggered a "remount-readonly" if the fs was mounted 
> like that?

Yes, errors that get recorded into the superblock are also errors that
would cause a read-only remount if the file system is set that way.

      	      			       	    - Ted

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-12-28 14:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-27 22:53 Regular ext4 error warning with HD in USB dock Con Kolivas
2010-12-28  2:53 ` Ted Ts'o
2010-12-28  8:19   ` Rogier Wolff
2010-12-28  9:09     ` Con Kolivas
2010-12-28 10:30     ` Amir Goldstein
2011-01-01 17:20       ` Ric Wheeler
2011-01-02 19:23         ` Amir Goldstein
2011-01-07  5:26           ` Ted Ts'o
2011-01-07 19:41             ` Amir Goldstein
2011-01-07 21:07               ` Amir Goldstein
2011-01-07 22:12                 ` Amir Goldstein
2011-01-08 20:28                   ` Amir Goldstein
2011-01-08  8:05                 ` Rogier Wolff
2011-01-08 20:06                   ` Amir Goldstein
2011-01-08 22:00                   ` Ted Ts'o
2011-01-09  8:12                     ` Rogier Wolff
2011-01-09 14:58                       ` Ted Ts'o
2011-01-10  7:45                         ` Andreas Dilger
2011-01-10  8:49                         ` Rogier Wolff
2011-01-07  5:28           ` Ted Ts'o
2011-01-07 19:43             ` Amir Goldstein
2011-01-07 20:39               ` Amir Goldstein
2010-12-28 14:15     ` Ted Ts'o [this message]
2010-12-28 10:41   ` torn5
     [not found]     ` <4D19BEF1.9010708-9AbUPqfR1/2XDw4h08c5KA@public.gmane.org>
2010-12-28 14:32       ` Ted Ts'o
2010-12-28 15:02         ` Ben Pfaff
2010-12-28 15:20         ` torn5

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