Hi, I have a Fedora core 4 machine (kernel- 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4smp) conneted to external DAS using Ultra 320 SCSI controller card. The DAS is configured as RAID 5 of 3.5 TB. I partitioned this array into two partitions of size 1.9TB and 1.6 TB. These are assigned to 2 different LUNS so that these two appear as two partitions in the my Linux machine. I use this DAS for backup and after backing up for 30 hours i observe that partition gets remounted as read-only with following error message in dmesg, EXT3-fs error (device sdb1): ext3_add_entry: bad entry in directory #2: directory entry across blocks - offset=1080, inode=135216, rec_len=4132, name_len=25 Aborting journal on device sdb1. ext3_abort called. EXT3-fs error (device sdb1): ext3_journal_start_sb: Detected aborted journal Remounting filesystem read-only EXT3-fs error (device sdb1) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted EXT3-fs error (device sdb1) in ext3_create: IO failure EXT3-fs error (device sdb1): ext3_readdir: bad entry in directory #2: directory entry across blocks - offset=1080, inode=135216, rec_len=4132, name_len=25 EXT3-fs error (device sdb1): ext3_readdir: bad entry in directory #2: directory entry across blocks - offset=1080, inode=135216, rec_len=4132, name_len=25 EXT3-fs error (device sdb1): ext3_readdir: bad entry in directory #2: directory entry across blocks - offset=1080, inode=135216, rec_len=4132, name_len=25 EXT3-fs error (device sdb1): ext3_readdir: bad entry in directory #2: directory entry across blocks - offset=1080, inode=135216, rec_len=4132, name_len=25 EXT3-fs error (device sdb1): ext3_readdir: bad entry in directory #2: directory entry across blocks - offset=1080, inode=135216, rec_len=4132, name_len=25 Any suggestions on how to solve this problem? Best regards and thanks in advance for your help, Raghu ____________________________________________________________________________________ Building a website is a piece of cake. Yahoo! Small Business gives you all the tools to get online. http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/webhosting _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users