From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262737AbTIQMA0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Sep 2003 08:00:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262738AbTIQMAZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Sep 2003 08:00:25 -0400 Received: from mta07ps.bigpond.com ([144.135.25.132]:22745 "EHLO mta07ps.bigpond.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262737AbTIQMAY (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Sep 2003 08:00:24 -0400 Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 22:02:03 +1000 From: Srihari Vijayaraghavan Subject: [PROBLEM] Ext3 error messages on 2.4.23-pre4 To: lkml Message-id: <200309172202.03577.harisri@bigpond.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: KMail/1.5 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Just after remounting /tmp as read-only, this error message appeared in the kernel log: Sep 17 20:59:32 laptop kernel: EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,10)) in start_transaction: Readonly filesystem Sep 17 20:59:32 laptop kernel: EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,10)) in ext3_delete_inode: Readonly filesystem When I tried to mount it read-write a little later, this error message appeared: Sep 17 21:08:18 laptop kernel: EXT3-fs warning: mounting fs with errors, running e2fsck is recommended Sep 17 21:08:18 laptop kernel: EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,10), internal journal I ran e2fsck on /dev/hda10 (the /tmp fs), it found some problem (inode fixed?) and fixed it. It's like EXT3 forgotten to write some data back to the file system when I mounted it read-only :-), but remembered about it straight after mounting the file system read-only. I'm still trying to reproduce the error messages, but I had no luck so far (both in 2.4.22-aa1 and in 2.4.23-pre4). The file system is mounted with these options: noatime,defaults Thank you Hari harisri@bigpond.com