Hello , I have setup an lvm consisted of 10 loopback attached files which are exported with samba from windows2000 workstations . Occasionaly , during write operations i get messages like the following EXT2-fs error (device lvm(58,0)): read_inode_bitmap: Cannot read inode bitmap - block_group = 1521, inode_bitmap = 49840129 EXT2-fs error (device lvm(58,0)): read_block_bitmap: Cannot read block bitmap - block_group = 1521, block_bitmap = 49840128 after that i must perform a umount and filesystem check which finds and fixes some errors . Data is usually only slightly damaged . Read operations work fine no matter how intensive they are . On kernel 2.4.16 , there were no such errors but there were oopses , again during write operations . From 2.4.17 to the 2.4.18-ac1 i am using now , the ext2 errors showed up . The lvm tools version is 1.0.3 . All kernels are smp . I did several huge transfers between the workstations and the linux box , as well as pings with big packets to make sure the networking is ok , and it seems to be . No packetloss with 65000 bytes packets ,no suspicious delays . I really want to track this problem down . Any help is appreciated . Kind regards -- ============================================================================= Dimitris Zilaskos Department of Physics @ Aristotle Univercity of Thessaloniki , Greece ============================================================================= _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html
