Hi Jan, Thanks for reply. I am using latest mother board with core 2 duo processor .. did you change the RAM? can you kindly specify the type of mother board that worked for you?. Thanks Raghu --- Jan Stobbe <jan.stobbe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Need a vacation? Get great deals to amazing places on Yahoo! Travel. http://travel.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users