OK, good to hear the problem is solved. Thanks for thinking about this, Duncan. On Wednesday 05 June 2002 3:05 pm, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 10:59:42PM +0200, Duncan Sands wrote: > > While compiling two kernels and untarring a third, my root fs was > > remounted r/w and I got the following in dmesg (kernel 2.4.19-pre9): > > > > EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,2)) in ext3_new_inode: error 28 > > Known problem, fixed in ext3 CVS and in -ac. If you run out of free > inodes (not free disk blocks), ext3 erroneously considers it to be an > IO error... > > > Aborting journal on device ide0(3,2). > > ext3_abort called > > EXT3-fs abort (device ide0(3,2)): ext3_journal_start: Detected aborted > > journal. Remounting filesystem read-only > > Remounting filesystem read-only > > EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,2)) in start_transaction: Journal has > > aborted EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,2)) in start_transaction: Journal > > has aborted EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,2)) in ext3_create: IO failure > > EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,2)) in start_transaction: Journal has > > aborted EXT3-fs error (device ide0(3,2)) in start_transaction: Journal > > has aborted > > ...and if you set the filesystem's on-error behaviour to be > remount-readonly, this is what happens. > > --Stephen > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Ext3-users@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users