Just got this warning when running 2.6.29-rc + yesterdays git on sparc64. For some yet unknown reason, scsi disk goes repeatably offline during shutdown and this got a warning out of ext3. Is this an expected warning or does it need some attention? Please CC: as I am not subscribed to linux-ext4. [20639.424955] sd 0:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to offline device [20639.488559] Aborting journal on device sda2. [20639.538715] sd 0:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to offline device [20639.607271] sd 0:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to offline device [20639.670515] EXT3-fs error (device sda2): ext3_find_entry: reading directory #188427 offset 0 [20639.770755] Remounting filesystem read-only [20639.821110] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [20639.876118] WARNING: at fs/buffer.c:1251 mark_buffer_dirty+0xa8/0xc0() [20639.954215] Modules linked in: ipv6 ext2 loop [20640.006202] Call Trace: [20640.035492] [000000000045cd6c] warn_slowpath+0x6c/0xc0 [20640.097999] [0000000000508708] mark_buffer_dirty+0xa8/0xc0 [20640.164695] [0000000000554b58] ext3_commit_super+0xb8/0x100 [20640.232396] [00000000005563e8] ext3_handle_error+0x68/0xe0 [20640.299084] [0000000000556530] ext3_error+0x50/0x60 [20640.358463] [0000000000551ed4] ext3_find_entry+0x554/0x680 [20640.425137] [00000000005529f0] ext3_lookup+0x30/0x160 [20640.486648] [00000000004ebfb8] __lookup_hash+0xf8/0x140 [20640.550159] [00000000004ec034] lookup_hash+0x34/0x60 [20640.610596] [00000000004ef998] do_filp_open+0x238/0x7e0 [20640.674154] [00000000004e0ab4] do_sys_open+0x54/0x100 [20640.735614] [00000000004431bc] sparc32_open+0x1c/0x40 [20640.797080] [0000000000406254] linux_sparc_syscall32+0x34/0x40 [20640.867912] ---[ end trace 747d11ba5876fcd1 ]--- -- Meelis Roos (mroos@xxxxxxxx) -- 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