Hi, I have the same errors as these folks: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=563247 OS: RHEL 5 x86_64 Kernel: 2.6.18 I see this on a wide variety of hardware and according to the bug report, it happens whether its hardware raid or dm. Since there are no records of this bug/issue on LKML I thought I'd pose the question. I am just looking into what is the root cause here, is it an ext3 bug? Assertion failure in journal_commit_transaction() at fs/jbd/commit.c:496: "commit_transaction->t_nr_buffers <= commit_transaction->t_outstanding_credits" ----------- [cut here ] --------- [please bite here ] --------- Kernel BUG at fs/jbd/commit.c:496 invalid opcode: 0000 [1] SMP last sysfs file: /class/scsi_host/host0/stats CPU 3 Modules linked in: i2c_dev eeprom adm1026 hwmon_vid i2c_amd756 nfsd exportfs lockd nfs_acl auth_rpcgss sunrpc ipv6 xfrm_nalgo crypto_api dm_mirror dm_log dm_mod video backlight sbs i2c_ec button battery asus_acpi acpi_memhotplug ac lp floppy shpchp k8temp k8_edac hwmon parport_pc amd_rng edac_mc parport i2c_amd8111 tg3 serio_raw i2c_core pcspkr sg 3w_9xxx sd_mod scsi_mod ext3 jbd ehci_hcd ohci_hcd uhci_hcd Pid: 1473, comm: kjournald Not tainted 2.6.18-164.el5az00 #1 RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff88033b05>] [<ffffffff88033b05>] :jbd:journal_commit_transaction+0x6a3/0x106a RSP: 0018:ffff81020ee63de0 EFLAGS: 00010286 RAX: 000000000000009d RBX: ffff810133f3c130 RCX: ffffffff80304ba8 RDX: ffffffff80304ba8 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffffffff80304ba0 RBP: ffff81010f6f4200 R08: ffffffff80304ba8 R09: 000000000000003d R10: ffff81020ee63a80 R11: 0000000000000280 R12: ffff81011520b730 R13: ffff8101139b41c0 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: ffff81010e441000 FS: 00002b03c3c59d30(0000) GS:ffff8101139aa6c0(0000) knlGS:00000000f7f228d0 CS: 0010 DS: 0018 ES: 0018 CR0: 000000008005003b CR2: 00002aac9c7f20a0 CR3: 00000001fe72d000 CR4: 00000000000006e0 Process kjournald (pid: 1473, threadinfo ffff81020ee62000, task ffff81010e8aa820) Stack: 00021f55e0d52ccc ffff81010e441000 ffff810100000000 000000b500000000 0000000000000000 ffff81010e8aa820 ffffffff8009f468 ffff81020ee63e18 ffff81020ee63e18 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000286 ffffffff8004b241 Call Trace: [<ffffffff8009f468>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x2e [<ffffffff8004b241>] try_to_del_timer_sync+0x51/0x5a [<ffffffff8803758c>] :jbd:kjournald+0xc1/0x213 [<ffffffff8009f468>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x2e [<ffffffff880374cb>] :jbd:kjournald+0x0/0x213 [<ffffffff8009f250>] keventd_create_kthread+0x0/0xc4 [<ffffffff8003295e>] kthread+0xfe/0x132 [<ffffffff8005dfb1>] child_rip+0xa/0x11 [<ffffffff8009f250>] keventd_create_kthread+0x0/0xc4 [<ffffffff80032860>] kthread+0x0/0x132 [<ffffffff8005dfa7>] child_rip+0x0/0x11 Code: 0f 0b 68 74 8e 03 88 c2 f0 01 45 31 e4 45 31 ff 45 31 f6 c7 RIP [<ffffffff88033b05>] :jbd:journal_commit_transaction+0x6a3/0x106a RSP <ffff81020ee63de0> Message from<0>Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users