Re: filesystem bug?

[Bryan Whitehead]

BTW, this happens on these filesystems we tried: ext2, ext3, and XFS.

Bryan Whitehead wrote:
> I get this problem all the time here at JPL. I can always get the files 
> back by remounting the filesystem.
>
> For example if /dev/sdb1 mounted on /export/project is getting wierd 
> "Input/output" errors I can simply run this command:
> mount -o remount /dev/sdb1 /export/project
>
> It's been about a year of these problems... I'll try running the test 
> Tsuchiya Yoshihiro made to reproduce. (I have not been able to create a 
> test that can consistantly reproduce... but the problem has sure screwed 
> up some data-gathering runs in the lab).
>
> These are all on Mandrake kernels though.... (from the 9.0 series). so 
> that's 2.4.19+tonOfPatches.
>
> Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 09:25, Tsuchiya Yoshihiro wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Following is an Ext2 result and the inode is filled by zero.
> > > I think the inode becomes a badinode.
> >
> >
> >
> > > [root@dell04 tsuchiya]# ls -l 
> > > /mnt/foo/ae/dir0/mozilla/layout/html/tests/table/bugs/bug2757.html
> > > ls: 
> > > /mnt/foo/ae/dir0/mozilla/layout/html/tests/table/bugs/bug2757.html: 
> > > Input/output error
> >
> >
> >
> > "Input/output error" can sometimes mean that the kernel has found a
> > filesystem problem, but it also often indicates a device-layer 
> > problem. Is there anything helpful in the kernel logs?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >  Stephen
> >
> >
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