> -----Original Message----- > From: "evil@xxxxxxxxxx"@mail.g-house.de [mailto:"evil@xxxxxxxxxx"@mail.g- > house.de] On Behalf Of Christian Kujau > Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2007 19:04 > To: Ulf Zimmermann > Cc: ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: RE: Kernel panic in ext3:dx_probe, help needed > > On Sat, 14 Jul 2007, Ulf Zimmermann wrote: > >>> believe before the cciss driver is getting unloaded. The last > >>> messages I am able to see are: > >>> > >>> md: stopping all md devices. > >>> md: md0 switched to read-only mode. > > I think these messages are the real cause of the ext3 errors. > > > Ok, found more information. EL4 sets dir_index for / (cciss/c0d0p6 as we > > are installing it). The RedHat provided cciss driver (2.6.14-RH2) has no > > problem with that, the latest cciss driver from HP, 2.6.16-6, does. > > Turning off dir_index for /, forcing fsck during reboot and everything > > is fine. > > A device driver should not care about filesystem features, IMHO. Either > there are problems with the cciss driver (syslog messages please) or the > ext3 fs is corrupted - in which case fsck should be run. I can reproduce this on 8+ servers, 6 of them were just installed yesterday afternoon. Using "tune2fs -O ^dir_index /dev/cciss/c0d0p6" followed by a "touch /forcefsck && reboot" leads to no panics are reboot time. I have reported this to HP for now. Ulf. _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
