Hello, I am using Linux software RAID since years and without problems so far. Not I got a problem on a system using a RAID 1 as its root filesystem. Normally, there is only little IO-access on the machine. Recently, I tried to delete many files (about 5 GB) and the rm command did not had success. Some files were deleted, but then it complained the filesystem being read-only (which it was not before). dmesg tells me the following: [4138404.185508] EXT3-fs error (device md1): ext3_free_blocks_sb: bit already cleared for block 6637603 [4138404.185594] Aborting journal on device md1. [4138404.188665] ext3_abort called. [4138404.188716] EXT3-fs error (device md1): ext3_journal_start_sb: Detected aborted journal [4138404.188780] Remounting filesystem read-only [4138404.210977] Remounting filesystem read-only [4138404.211852] EXT3-fs error (device md1) in ext3_free_blocks_sb: Journal has aborted [4138404.211974] EXT3-fs error (device md1) in ext3_free_blocks_sb: Journal has aborted [4138404.212035] EXT3-fs error (device md1) in ext3_reserve_inode_write: Journal has aborted [4138404.212085] EXT3-fs error (device md1) in ext3_truncate: Journal has aborted [4138404.212134] EXT3-fs error (device md1) in ext3_reserve_inode_write: Journal has aborted [4138404.212183] EXT3-fs error (device md1) in ext3_orphan_del: Journal has aborted [4138404.212231] EXT3-fs error (device md1) in ext3_reserve_inode_write: Journal has aborted [4138404.234253] __journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_committed_data [4138404.234313] __journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_committed_data[4138404.234354] __journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_committed_data [4138404.234414] __journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_committed_data[4138544.649154] ext3_abort called. [4138544.649202] EXT3-fs error (device md1): ext3_remount: Abort forced by user[4138551.221721] ext3_abort called. [4138551.221774] EXT3-fs error (device md1): ext3_remount: Abort forced by user[4138551.224418] ext3_abort called. [4138551.224466] EXT3-fs error (device md1): ext3_remount: Abort forced by user It looks like an ext3 problem and I am not sure about the reason. Why I am posting to this list of the following: I tried to remount the filesystem in rw-mode, but it failed with the following error: # mount -t ext3 -o remount,rw /dev/md1 / mount: block device /dev/md1 is write-protected, mounting read-only So I am asking myself, why /dev/md1 got write-protected. Concerning the raid-device I can provide the following information: # mdadm --detail /dev/md1 /dev/md1: Version : 00.90 Creation Time : Sat Aug 16 13:00:01 2008 Raid Level : raid1 Array Size : 39070016 (37.26 GiB 40.01 GB) Used Dev Size : 39070016 (37.26 GiB 40.01 GB) Raid Devices : 2 Total Devices : 2 Preferred Minor : 1 Persistence : Superblock is persistent Update Time : Thu Jan 20 21:52:13 2011 State : clean Active Devices : 2 Working Devices : 2 Failed Devices : 0 Spare Devices : 0 UUID : 109aa1d3:714fc116:8dd4536c:05742218 Events : 0.74 Number Major Minor RaidDevice State 0 3 3 0 active sync /dev/hda3 1 22 3 1 active sync /dev/hdc3 # ls -l /dev/md1 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 9, 1 2011-01-20 21:41 /dev/md1 As far as I can tell, this looks normal. Also, I did not see any problems concerning the underlying devices in dmesg. Can anyone give hints what is going wrong here? Best, Udo -- 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