Rahul, I just start experiencing the exact same problems on one of my RedHat 7.3 servers. So far it has been about once a week. The first time this happened, I was lucky enough to get an error in the error log, and it turned out to be from an old kernel bug (kernel BUG at journal.c:406!) I upgraded from 2.4.18-3smp to 2.4.18-27.7.xsmp, but the problem came back, this time with no errors in the log. I thought it might be hardware related (the system would not boot with hda in the system after the 1st crash), so I replaced a harddrive, rebuilt the array, ran e2fsck on /dev/md*, and so far, everything has been fine. It has only been 3 days though, I am afraid the problem might come back. I don't know if any of this helps, but I would like to get to the bottom of this too. I'm running: RH 7.3 with ext3 the rh kernel 2.4.18-27.7.xsmp And raid 1 on dual WDC 120 GB harddrives. /dev/md0 4.8G 1.1G 3.4G 24% / /dev/md2 45M 19M 24M 43% /boot /dev/md1 99G 8.0G 86G 9% /home none 1008M 0 1008M 0% /dev/shm /dev/md3 4.8G 464M 4.1G 10% /var -= END =- =========================================================== Hi All, About once a week, I get a this strange error on bash command line. Running any command on the command line results in " Input/output error". Only way to get back to normal operation is to hard reboot the machine. I suspect this is something to do with my file system. I am using RH7.3 with ext3 file system on IBM Travelstar drives. I use dd to duplicate the drives. The source and the target drives are identical (same make, model) .I am not sure, but I suspect this error message comes up only on the duplicated drives. (I have never seen this message on my desktop which has a different drive). Any pointers on what is causing this problem would be great Thanks Rahul _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
