Today our server had seriuos problems, we had to reinitiate it and run fsck manually. Dou you think it's an ext3, kernel (vanilla 2.4.19) or hardware bug? The errors were (from syslog): -------------------------------- Oct 6 16:10:25 nou kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device Oct 6 16:10:25 nou kernel: 72:02: rw=0, want=230266240, limit=4882432 Oct 6 16:10:25 nou kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device Oct 6 16:10:25 nou kernel: 72:02: rw=0, want=1371661772, limit=4882432 Oct 6 16:10:25 nou kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device Oct 6 16:10:25 nou kernel: 72:02: rw=0, want=1301647364, limit=4882432 Oct 6 16:10:25 nou kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device Oct 6 16:10:25 nou kernel: 72:02: rw=0, want=230266240, limit=4882432 Oct 6 16:10:25 nou kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device Oct 6 16:10:25 nou kernel: 72:02: rw=0, want=1371661772, limit=4882432 Oct 6 16:10:25 nou kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device Oct 6 16:10:25 nou kernel: 72:02: rw=0, want=1371661772, limit=4882432 Oct 6 16:10:25 nou kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device Oct 6 16:10:25 nou kernel: 72:02: rw=0, want=1371661772, limit=4882432 Oct 6 16:10:25 nou kernel: EXT3-fs error (device ataraid(114,2)): ext3_free_inode: bit already cleared for inode 210865 Oct 6 16:10:25 nou kernel: Aborting journal on device ataraid(114,2). Oct 6 16:10:25 nou kernel: Remounting filesystem read-only Oct 6 16:10:25 nou kernel: EXT3-fs error (device ataraid(114,2)) in ext3_delete_inode: IO failure Oct 6 16:10:25 nou kernel: EXT3-fs error (device ataraid(114,2)) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted Oct 6 16:10:25 nou kernel: EXT3-fs error (device ataraid(114,2)) in ext3_delete_inode: Journal has aborted Oct 6 16:10:25 nou kernel: EXT3-fs error (device ataraid(114,2)) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted Oct 6 16:10:25 nou kernel: EXT3-fs error (device ataraid(114,2)) in ext3_delete_inode: Journal has aborted Oct 6 16:12:36 nou kernel: EXT3-fs error (device ataraid(114,2)) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted -------------------------------------- nou:~# mount /dev/ataraid/d0p2 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro) proc on /proc type proc (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) /dev/ataraid/d0p1 on /boot type ext2 (rw) /dev/ataraid/d0p5 on /home type ext3 (rw,noatime,data=writeback) nou:~# cat /proc/partitions major minor #blocks name 114 0 19551136 ataraid/d0 114 1 14320 ataraid/d0p1 114 2 4882432 ataraid/d0p2 114 3 1 ataraid/d0p3 114 5 14153712 ataraid/d0p5 114 6 499696 ataraid/d0p6 34 0 19551168 hdg 34 1 14320 hdg1 34 2 4882432 hdg2 34 3 1 hdg3 34 5 14153712 hdg5 34 6 499696 hdg6 33 0 19551168 hde 33 1 14320 hde1 33 2 4882432 hde2 33 3 1 hde3 33 5 14153712 hde5 33 6 499696 hde6 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8633 [Apollo Pro266] (rev 01) Subsystem: Super Micro Computer Inc: Unknown device 2166 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 8 Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M] Capabilities: [a0] AGP version 2.0 Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8633 [Apollo Pro266 AGP] (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 0 Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0 I/O behind bridge: 0000a000-0000afff Memory behind bridge: f4000000-f6ffffff Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2 00:0c.0 RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc. 20267 (rev 02) Subsystem: Promise Technology, Inc. Fasttrak100 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11 I/O ports at b000 [size=8] I/O ports at b400 [size=4] I/O ports at b800 [size=8] I/O ports at bc00 [size=4] I/O ports at c000 [size=64] Memory at f8100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K] Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=64K] Capabilities: [58] Power Management version 1 Regards, -- ricardo galli _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users