In gmane.linux.raid Georg C. F. Greve <greve@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The message I saw on the remote console when it crashed with pure ext3 > on raid5 was: > > Assertion failure in journal_start() at fs/jbd/transaction.c:271: "handle->h_transaction->t_journal == journal" > Yes, well, don't put the journal on the raid partition. Put it elsewhere (anyway, journalling and raid do not mix, as write ordering is not - deliberately - preserved in raid, as far as I can tell). Peter - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html