Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754951Ab0LMXNJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Dec 2010 18:13:09 -0500 Received: from mail-iw0-f174.google.com ([209.85.214.174]:54284 "EHLO mail-iw0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753857Ab0LMXNH (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Dec 2010 18:13:07 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=RHllv9YsOoqE+a2c7smBbdXUdgVZvCQvvolLua1TgFZzbXwp3Ks1POxayqyqkm3S59 /5f7lawEdg8dheOUgyb18HCnbs7HmMKVTx9egSwwSqGbfQ+HNck4512KYXH03w/ikB7G HPURUw1Bxe6aLGfojIAMGH1D5mhkpact0Wur0= MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 23:13:06 +0000 Message-ID: Subject: ext4: initial error at 1288471943: ext4_mb_generate_buddy:718 From: =?UTF-8?Q?Mathias_Bur=C3=A9n?= To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2225 Lines: 70 Hi, I'm running 2.6.36 and I'm seeing this about once per day in dmesg: EXT4-fs (dm-0): error count: 1 EXT4-fs (dm-0): initial error at 1288471943: ext4_mb_generate_buddy:718 EXT4-fs (dm-0): last error at 1288471943: ext4_mb_generate_buddy:718 uptime && dmesg | grep ' last error at 1288471943' | wc -l 23:08:29 up 20 days, 5:46, 1 user, load average: 0.69, 0.85, 0.83 e2fsprogs 1.41.12-1 lvm2 2.02.78-1 As you can see it's always the exact same message. I've run fsck on the system and no errors were found. dm-0 is the root filesystem, it all looks like this: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Nov 23 17:22 /dev/mapper/lvmssd-root -> ../dm-0 --- Volume group --- VG Name lvmssd System ID Format lvm2 Metadata Areas 1 Metadata Sequence No 27 VG Access read/write VG Status resizable MAX LV 0 Cur LV 1 Open LV 1 Max PV 0 Cur PV 1 Act PV 1 VG Size 53.80 GiB PE Size 4.00 MiB Total PE 13772 Alloc PE / Size 13772 / 53.80 GiB Free PE / Size 0 / 0 VG UUID 4jqUcB-jEzl-pKT1-mcPU-soCV-2YXT-cuTk9v ... hdparm -i /dev/sda /dev/sda: Model=Corsair CSSD-F60GB2, FwRev=1.1, SerialNo=10326505580009990027 Config={ Fixed } RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=4 BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=unknown, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=1 CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=117231408 IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120} PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4 DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 *udma6 AdvancedPM=no WriteCache=enabled Drive conforms to: unknown: ATA/ATAPI-2,3,4,5,6,7 * signifies the current active mode Is this message dangerous? Can I disable it somehow? Why is it showing up? Etc. Thanks, // Mathias -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/