On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 12:18:16PM -0800, Bill Huey (hui) wrote: > What ever is in the latest Ubuntu maverick, 2.6.35 for the kernel. > > The only thing that makes it not looking like it was a storage problem > is this line that comes before the SATA error: > > ----- > Feb 25 04:41:26 finfin kernel: [206290.181230] JBD: Spotted dirty > metadata buffer (dev = sdb1, blocknr = 0). There's a risk of > filesystem corruption in case of system crash. > ----- There are a few places where we update the superblock bypassing the journal layer. (For example, when we set the RO_COMPAT_LARGE_FILE feature flag if it wasn't previously set). Those should be cleaned up, but it's not related to the rest of the scary-looking corruption which you saw. The worst that might happen is specific superblock update might get lost (i.e., the RO_COMPAT_LARGE_FILE feature flag) on a crash before we commit some other superblock change to the journal. - Ted -- 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
