Hi Kannan, we had similar problems with ext3. After a month of searching for the error we changed the mainboard of the server. The maiboard was to old to work properly with the new areca raid controler we used. Without heavy load the device was o.k. Best regards, Jan > 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 -- Jan Stobbe Netropol Digitale Systeme GmbH jan.stobbe@xxxxxxxxxxx Stresemannstrasse 161 Tel: +49 40 284167-20 D-22769 Hamburg/Germany Fax: +49 40 284167-40 http://www.netropol.de/ Registergericht: Geschäftsführer: Handelsregister Hamburg, HRB 75989 Jan Stobbe, Karl-Heinz Dellwo _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
