J.D. Bakker wrote: > Hi, > > My 4TB ext4 RAID-6 has just become damaged for the second time in two > months. While I do have backups for most of my data, it would be good > to know if there is a recovery procedure or a way to avoid these > crashes. The symptoms are massive group descriptor corruption, > similar to what was mentioned in > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.ext4/10844 and > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.ext4/11195 . .... snip .... > Error writing block 1 (Attempt to write block from filesystem > resulted in short write). Ignore error? no > Error writing block 2 (Attempt to write block from filesystem > resulted in short write). Ignore error? no > Error writing block 3 (Attempt to write block from filesystem > resulted in short write). Ignore error? no > [...] > Error writing block 231 (Attempt to write block from filesystem > resulted in short write). Ignore error? no > Error writing block 232 (Attempt to write block from filesystem > resulted in short write). Ignore error? no > > (full log at http://lartmaker.nl/ext4/e2fsck-md0.txt) Those seem a bit odd; why are these write failing? Anything in the kernel logs when this happens? I'm just wondering if there could be some underlying storage problem? Thanks, -Eric -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
