From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 02:35:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 02:35:58 -0400 Received: from h24-67-14-151.cg.shawcable.net ([24.67.14.151]:53999 "EHLO webber.adilger.int") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 02:35:57 -0400 From: Andreas Dilger Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 00:37:25 -0600 To: Bill Huey Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ext3 journal/IDE problems ? Message-ID: <20020809063725.GB12482@clusterfs.com> Mail-Followup-To: Bill Huey , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20020809040456.GA786@gnuppy.monkey.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020809040456.GA786@gnuppy.monkey.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-GPG-Key: 1024D/0D35BED6 X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7A37 5D79 BF1B CECA D44F 8A29 A488 39F5 0D35 BED6 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Aug 08, 2002 21:04 -0700, Bill Huey wrote: > What's going on with this ? > > I get: > EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,5)): ext3_free_blocks: bit already cleared for block 753210 > : > : > EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,5)): ext3_free_blocks: bit already cleared for block 753273 > ext3_free_blocks: aborting transaction: Journal has aborted in __ext3_journal_get_undo_access<2>EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,5)) in ext3_free_blocks: Journal has aborted Looks like you got a block of zeros from disk when it should have been a block bitmap, or your filesystem is otherwise corrupted. You need to do a full fsck on this filesystem. As for cause, I have no idea. IDE DMA, IDE cables, memory, kernel bug... Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/