Hi Folks, Just rebooted a 4.7-rc6 test VM, and the root filesystem had the journal abort a couple of seconds after mount while the system was still booting: [ 3.043543] EXT4-fs (sda1): mounting ext3 file system using the ext4 subsystem [ 3.045027] EXT4-fs (sda1): INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem [ 3.046008] EXT4-fs (sda1): write access will be enabled during recovery [ 3.120052] EXT4-fs (sda1): recovery complete [ 3.121746] EXT4-fs (sda1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null) [ 3.122778] VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly on device 8:1. ..... [ 5.263329] EXT4-fs error (device sda1): ext4_mb_generate_buddy:758: group 27, block bitmap and bg descriptor inconsistent: 4197 vs 4196 free clusters [ 5.266343] Aborting journal on device sda1-8. [ 5.267939] EXT4-fs (sda1): Remounting filesystem read-only [ 5.269129] EXT4-fs error (device sda1) in ext4_free_blocks:4904: Journal has aborted [ 5.271431] EXT4-fs error (device sda1) in ext4_do_update_inode:4891: Journal has aborted [ 5.273720] EXT4-fs error (device sda1) in ext4_truncate:4150: IO failure [ 5.275917] EXT4-fs error (device sda1) in ext4_orphan_del:2923: Journal has aborted [ 5.278325] EXT4-fs error (device sda1) in ext4_do_update_inode:4891: Journal has aborted The root filesystem checked clean three reboots before this occurred. e2fsck output on ro mounted fs: # e2fsck /dev/sda1 e2fsck 1.43-WIP (18-May-2015) /dev/sda1: recovering journal Superblock last mount time is in the future. (by less than a day, probably due to the hardware clock being incorrectly set) /dev/sda1 contains a file system with errors, check forced. Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes Pass 2: Checking directory structure Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity Pass 4: Checking reference counts Pass 5: Checking group summary information Free blocks count wrong (542319, counted=546517). Fix<y>? yes Inode bitmap differences: -219131 Fix<y>? yes Free inodes count wrong for group #27 (6720, counted=6721). Fix<y>? yes Directories count wrong for group #27 (9, counted=8). Fix<y>? yes Free inodes count wrong (341015, counted=341018). Fix<y>? yes /dev/sda1: ***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED ***** /dev/sda1: ***** REBOOT LINUX ***** /dev/sda1: 283606/624624 files (3.1% non-contiguous), 1949574/2496091 blocks # -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- 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