On Jun 14, 2005 17:14 -0400, David Shaw wrote: > Jun 13 13:58:16 n202 kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sda5): ext3_get_inode_block: bad inode number: 9 > > This particular example is a SATA disk, but it has happened to a > regular old IDE disk as well. It is always the root partition. The > bad inode number varies (but is always either 3 or 9). There are no > other errors about the disk in the log. The "bad inode number" check is only for inodes inside the "reserved inode" area, namely inum < 12. The only commonly used (=valid) inode numbers in this range are the root inode (=2) and the journal inode (=8), so I suspect you are getting single-bit memory errors in bit 1, or if the controller is the same that would also be viewed with suspicion. It is very likely that you are getting other single-bit errors elsewhere but they are harder to notice. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Principal Software Engineer Cluster File Systems, Inc. _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
