From: Jon Masters <jonathan@jonmasters.org>
To: "linux-os (Dick Johnson)" <linux-os@analogic.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
Linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Possible EXT2 race
Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2007 03:57:54 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1197104274.6899.3.camel@perihelion> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0712071355200.5300@chaos.analogic.com>
On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 13:58 -0500, linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Dave Jones wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 08:15:42AM -0500, linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote:
> >
> > > Dec 7 04:05:55 chaos kernel: sd 0:0:1:0: [sdb] Add. Sense: Peripheral device write fault
> >
> > This sounds more like a hardware problem.
> There was an attempt to write beyond the end of the device because
> everything in the file-system was getting trashed. I can read/write
> the 5 year-old SCSI physical drive with no errors from both within
> linux and through the Adaptec BIOS. This problem only occurs
> when I attempt to truncate a file that is being written by another
> task.
Well, that might be how you can reproduce it, but this is almost
certainly a hardware problem and not EXT2 at fault - the filesystem can
only do just so much once its data has been corrupted by an old disk.
Jon.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-08 8:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-07 13:15 Possible EXT2 race linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2007-12-07 16:51 ` Dave Jones
2007-12-07 18:58 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2007-12-08 8:57 ` Jon Masters [this message]
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2007-12-08 3:44 ` Robert Hancock
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