It appears that the RAID has hardware problems as three of the disks are being detected as "unhealthy". Thank you all for your help! ________________________________________ From: Theodore Ts'o [tytso@xxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, August 30, 2013 2:23 PM To: Andreas Dilger Cc: Richards, Paul Franklin; ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Strange fsck.ext3 behavior - infinite loop On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 12:07:22PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > > [root@myhost /]# mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda1 > > mke2fs 1.35 (28-Feb-2004) > > First thing I would suggest is to update to a newer version of e2fsprogs, since this one is 9+ years old and that is a lot of > water under the bridge. That's definitely good advice, but even with e2fsprogs 1.35, if e2fsck -f is finding errors when run immediately after running mke2fs, it would make me suspect the storage device. Are you sure the RAID controller (is this a hw raid, or software raid) is working correctly? - Ted _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users