pls help me: ext3 filesystem reported errors while deleting files

pls help me: ext3 filesystem reported errors while deleting files

[gshan]

Hi All,

After I uncompressed a big tar file (about 600MB) that has been mounted 
through NFS to local
hard disk, I tried to delete all of files from the tar file, but ext3 
filesystem reported huge errors
as follows. Note that I'm using IDE driver instead of ATA driver for 
hard disk.

SP(27-A) $ cd /disk_root/
SP(27-A) $ busybox tar -zxf /aaa/Gavin/sp3m/target_7xx_cge5.2008-07-10.tgz
SP(27-A) $ ls
bin         home        media       root        sys
boot        lib         mnt         sbin        tmp
dev         lost+found  opt         selinux     usr
etc         man         proc        srv         var
SP(27-A) $ rm -fr *
EXT3-fs error (device hdc5): ext3_free_blocks_sb: bit already cleared 
for block 538640
EXT3-fs error (device hdc5): ext3_free_blocks_sb: bit already cleared 
for block 538648
EXT3-fs error (device hdc5): ext3_free_blocks_sb: bit already cleared 
for block 538648
EXT3-fs error (device hdc5): ext3_free_blocks_sb: bit already cleared 
for block 534539
EXT3-fs error (device hdc5): ext3_free_blocks_sb: bit already cleared 
for block 534540
:
:

Thanks,
Gavin

Re: pls help me: ext3 filesystem reported errors while deleting files

[Theodore Tso]

On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 10:08:06AM +0800, gshan wrote:
> After I uncompressed a big tar file (about 600MB) that has been mounted  
> through NFS to local
> hard disk, I tried to delete all of files from the tar file, but ext3  
> filesystem reported huge errors
> as follows. Note that I'm using IDE driver instead of ATA driver for  
> hard disk.
>
> SP(27-A) $ rm -fr *
> EXT3-fs error (device hdc5): ext3_free_blocks_sb: bit already cleared  
> for block 538640
> EXT3-fs error (device hdc5): ext3_free_blocks_sb: bit already cleared  
> for block 538648

Can you replicate the problem?  I would suggest fixing the filesystem
corruptions using e2fsck, and then seeing if you can replicate the
problem.

Note that this sort of problem can be caused by hardware problems or
device driver issues.

						- Ted