From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 14 May 2002 07:36:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 14 May 2002 07:36:39 -0400 Received: from dsl-213-023-062-041.arcor-ip.net ([213.23.62.41]:34322 "EHLO spot.local") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 14 May 2002 07:36:37 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Oliver Feiler To: Neil Conway , reality@delusion.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Ext3 errors with 2.4.18 Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 13:37:58 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.4] In-Reply-To: <3CE0EDF6.621AB9D0@ukaea.org.uk> X-PGP-KeyID: 0x561D4FD2 X-PGP-Key: http://www.lionking.org/~kiza/pgpkey.shtml X-Species: Snow Leopard X-Operating-System: Linux i686 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: <200205141337.58202.kiza@gmx.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tuesday 14 May 2002 12:59, Neil Conway wrote: > Your errors are just like the ones I experienced due to an IDE bug. It's a slightly older P3B-F board with Intel IDE. It's not my system, but it has been running fine as long as I can remember. > > Are you: > a) using a hard-disk on the same cable as a CD/DVD The IDE disk layout is: IDE pri: HD + HD IDE sec: CD + HD The RAID is constructed from IDE primary master + secondary slave. (40 + 30 GB disks) > > b) seeing any "hdX: status error: status=0x58 {DriveReady SeekComplete > DataRequest}" errors in your log > > c) seeing (b) in close proximity to ATAPI module init messages like: > "hdb: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33)" > > ? > > If yes to all/most of the above, you may be suffering from the same > bug. b) and c) are no, no. > If not, your inodes in RAM are probably being trashed by a > different bug :-)) Hm, wherever. ;) The problem manifested itself right after a reboot. Postfix complained at boot about dirs in spool/postfix not owned by postfix and at some point the fs was remounted ro. I dunno where to look, maybe it's indeed MD RAID + ext3 like Andreas pointed out? Bye, Oliver -- Oliver Feiler / http://www.lionking.org/~kiza/ (http://spot.dtip.de/) / ___________________________________________________________________________/