I'm getting these messages logged in /var/log/messages. Should I be worried? The system has had a number of unclean shutdowns due to: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=550724 kernel versions that I've seen this on: kernel-2.6.31.12-174.2.3.fc12.x86_64 kernel-2.6.32.6-36.fc12.x86_64 These are ext4 filesystems. Feb 5 15:04:57 turing kernel: JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-5, blocknr = 2886175). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash. Feb 5 15:04:57 turing kernel: JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-2, blocknr = 69752). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash. Feb 5 15:04:57 turing kernel: JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-2, blocknr = 69752). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash. Feb 5 15:05:09 turing kernel: JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-1, blocknr = 1071367). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash. Feb 5 15:05:09 turing kernel: JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-1, blocknr = 1071367). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash. Feb 5 15:05:21 turing kernel: JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-5, blocknr = 2886176). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash. Feb 5 15:05:21 turing kernel: JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-5, blocknr = 2886176). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash. Feb 5 15:05:22 turing kernel: JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-2, blocknr = 69753). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash. Feb 5 15:05:22 turing kernel: JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-2, blocknr = 69753). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash. Feb 5 15:15:04 turing kernel: JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-2, blocknr = 69754). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash. Feb 5 15:15:04 turing kernel: JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-2, blocknr = 69754). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash. Feb 5 15:37:01 turing kernel: JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-1, blocknr = 1071369). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash. Feb 5 15:37:01 turing kernel: JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-1, blocknr = 1071369). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash. Feb 5 15:37:04 turing kernel: JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-2, blocknr = 69755). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash. Feb 5 15:37:04 turing kernel: JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-2, blocknr = 69755). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash. Feb 5 15:48:04 turing kernel: JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-5, blocknr = 2886178). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash. Feb 5 15:48:04 turing kernel: JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-5, blocknr = 2886178). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash. Feb 5 15:59:06 turing kernel: JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-1, blocknr = 1071370). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash. Feb 5 15:59:06 turing kernel: JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-1, blocknr = 1071370). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash. Feb 5 15:59:11 turing kernel: JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-2, blocknr = 69756). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash. Feb 5 15:59:11 turing kernel: JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-2, blocknr = 69756). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash. Feb 5 15:59:13 turing kernel: JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-5, blocknr = 2886179). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash. Feb 5 15:59:13 turing kernel: JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-5, blocknr = 2886179). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash. -- Norman Gaywood, Computer Systems Officer University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia ngaywood@xxxxxxxxxx Phone: +61 (0)2 6773 3337 http://mcs.une.edu.au/~norm Fax: +61 (0)2 6773 3312 Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kernel
