Hello again, now on the same system (hardware configuration unchanged, except that I attached a DVD burner yesterday), I got dozens of errors like these: ---------- Mar 22 13:47:33 bakunin kernel: __find_get_block_slow() failed. block=197478301302784, b_blocknr=0 Mar 22 13:47:33 bakunin kernel: b_state=0x00188021, b_size=4096 Mar 22 13:47:33 bakunin kernel: device blocksize: 4096 Mar 22 13:47:33 bakunin kernel: __find_get_block_slow() failed. block=197478301302784, b_blocknr=0 Mar 22 13:47:33 bakunin kernel: b_state=0x00188021, b_size=4096 Mar 22 13:47:33 bakunin kernel: device blocksize: 4096 Mar 22 13:47:33 bakunin kernel: grow_buffers: requested out-of-range block 197478301302784 for device dm-14 Mar 22 13:47:33 bakunin kernel: EXT4-fs error (device dm-14): ext4_xattr_delete_inode: inode 1022: block 197478301302784 read error ---------- Please not that I had run an fsck on the mentioned device only a couple hours earlier, with no errors found. Now, does this indicate a hardware problem? My drives' SMART info reports not a single reallocated sector. But one drive has a high Hardware_ECC_Recovered count, but I got it that's nothing to actually worry about. Well, it might indicate bad cabling, though. Richard -- 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