Re: ext3 badness in 2.6.0-test2

From: Andrew Morton (akpm@osdl.org)
Date: Mon Aug 04 2003 - 15:22:19 EST


Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org> wrote:
>
> I came back this morning and found:
> EXT3-fs error (device md0) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted
> EXT3-fs error (device md0) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted
> EXT3-fs error (device md0) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted
>
> Unfortunately, from the very first one, all writes failed; including all
> writes to syslog. So I don't know what happened at the beginning. Is this
> more likely to be something internal to ext3, or a problem with the RAID
> layer?

Could have been an IO error, or the block/MD/device layer returned
incorrect data. ext3 used to go BUG a lot in the latter case, but nowadays
we try to abort the journal and go read-only.

Without the initial message we do not know.
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