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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
To: Thomas Backlund <tmb@mageia.org>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org" <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: INFO: task jbd2/dm-0-8:3993 blocked for more than 120 seconds
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 19:48:07 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <27048.1313624887@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 18 Aug 2011 00:08:53 +0300." <4E4C2DE5.5020100@mageia.org>

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On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 00:08:53 +0300, Thomas Backlund said:
> Andreas Dilger skrev 17.8.2011 17:35:

> > This is a problem with your disk hardware.

> Are you sure?
> I get nothing from smart, even after I had executed the long test...

SMART is nice, but it isn't guaranteed.  In particular, you need to
double-check that what you think it's testing in a "long" test is what
it actually did...

> # smartctl -a /dev/sda
> smartctl 5.39.1 2010-01-28 r3054 [x86_64-mandriva-linux-gnu] (local build)
> Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net
> 
> === START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
> Device Model:     WDC WD1002FAEX-00Z3A0
> Serial Number:    WD-WCATR3168879
> Firmware Version: 05.01D05
> User Capacity:    1,000,204,886,016 bytes

So we're looking at a terabyte of disk...

> Selective self-test flags (0x0):
>    After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.

And it's *NOT* doing a read-scan of the entire terabyte.


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      reply	other threads:[~2011-08-17 23:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-17 13:31 INFO: task jbd2/dm-0-8:3993 blocked for more than 120 seconds Thomas Backlund
2011-08-17 14:35 ` Andreas Dilger
2011-08-17 21:08   ` Thomas Backlund
2011-08-17 23:48     ` Valdis.Kletnieks [this message]

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