Re: Ext3 error with Megaraid on x86_64 with 8GB RAM

[bloch]

On Wed, 02 Nov 2005, bloch@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Three times now I've seen severe ext3 problems on two different Opteron
> machines with 8G RAM.  Two other machines with 4G are otherwise
> identical but haven't exhibited the same filesystem problems.
> 
> The corruption occurs on a Megaraid RAID 1 array.
> 
> Here's the error message:
> 
> EXT3-fs error (device sdb2): ext3_new_block: Allocating block in system
> zone - block = 55593720
> Aborting journal on device sdb2.
> EXT3-fs error (device sdb2) in ext3_prepare_write: Journal has aborted
> ext3_abort called.
> EXT3-fs error (device sdb2): ext3_journal_start_sb: Detected aborted
> journal
> Remounting filesystem read-only
> __journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_committed_data
> 
> The motherboard is a Tyan Thunder K8W.
> 
> The first time this happened fsck could not fix the errors and I had to
> wipe the partition.
> 

This is with a Fedora 4 kernel 2.6.13-1.1532_FC4smp
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