On 3 Jul 2004, Alex Bligh wrote: > Twice in the past week (when things have previously been fine for a > year), a server has locked up spewing forth a continuous stream of > ext3 write errors. This is to a bog-standard IDE disk, only thing > on the controller, etc. I have had this sort of behavior on a system for some time, which resolved itself as a faulty IDE cable in the end. > Nothing EVER hits the logs. Not a single error. Every process that > accesses the disk seems to fail. It looks like ext3 is failing every > I/O request. When the system generated (sufficient) corruption, it would trigger the default action of remounting the filesystem read-only, which cause a good deal of follow on failure; perhaps this is the case here? Regards, Daniel -- Fetters of gold are still fetters, and the softest lining can never make them so easy as liberty. -- Mary Astell, _An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex_, 1696 _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users