2.5.47 / unusual ext3 fs errors

2.5.47 / unusual ext3 fs errors

[CaT]

Under 2.5.x I seem to be getting a lot of fs errors on fsck, mainly
dealing with bad inode counts in groups. Just now though, I had /var
remounted read-only due to the following:

t_transaction: Journal has aborted
EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,9)) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted
EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,9)) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted
EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,9)) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted
...
EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,9)) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted
EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,9)) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted
EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,9)) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted

And again, on reboot into single user mode and a full fsck bad inode
count errors were present. There were no errors detected whilst testing
the disk with -c.

Under 2.4.x my filesystems never showed errors.

I'd provide more info but this is all that I have. If you need more then
you'll need to tell me what to do to get it. :)

Thanks.

-- 
        All people are equal,
        But some are more equal then others.
            - George W. Bush Jr, President of the United States
              September 21, 2002 (Abridged version of security speech)

Re: 2.5.47 / unusual ext3 fs errors

[Andrew Morton]

CaT wrote:
> 
> Under 2.5.x I seem to be getting a lot of fs errors on fsck, mainly
> dealing with bad inode counts in groups. Just now though, I had /var
> remounted read-only due to the following:
> 
> t_transaction: Journal has aborted
> EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,9)) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted
> EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,9)) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted
> EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,9)) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted
> ...
> EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,9)) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted
> EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,9)) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted
> EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,9)) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted
> 
> And again, on reboot into single user mode and a full fsck bad inode
> count errors were present. There were no errors detected whilst testing
> the disk with -c.

There was a problem in 2.5.46 which mucked up these counters.  On disk.

2.5.47 fixed that bug, and now you have fixed the on-disk mess which 2.5.46
created, all should be well.

Re: 2.5.47 / unusual ext3 fs errors

[CaT]

On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 03:27:24PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> CaT wrote:
> > And again, on reboot into single user mode and a full fsck bad inode
> > count errors were present. There were no errors detected whilst testing
> > the disk with -c.
> 
> There was a problem in 2.5.46 which mucked up these counters.  On disk.
> 
> 2.5.47 fixed that bug, and now you have fixed the on-disk mess which 2.5.46
> created, all should be well.

Sweet. Thanks. :)

-- 
        All people are equal,
        But some are more equal then others.
            - George W. Bush Jr, President of the United States
              September 21, 2002 (Abridged version of security speech)