From: Mark Lord Subject: ext3: Freeing blocks not in datazone Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:23:05 -0400 Message-ID: <4803A109.5080800@rtr.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Return-path: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org One of my test systems here, running 2.6.25-rc8-git*, just now crapped out with this in the tail end of dmesg: [ 20.927780] EXT3-fs error (device sda1): ext3_free_blocks: Freeing blocks not in datazone - block [ 20.928756] Aborting journal on device sda1. [ 7.336461] ext3_abort called. [ 20.930208] Remounting filesystem read-only [ 7.336925] EXT3-fs error (device sda1): ext3_journal_start_sb: Detected aborted journal [ 7.336930] Remounting filesystem read-only [ 20.930847] EXT3-fs error (device sda1) in ext3_reserve_inode_write: Journal has aborted [ 20.930960] EXT3-fs error (device sda1) in ext3_truncate: Journal has aborted [ 20.931037] EXT3-fs error (device sda1) in ext3_reserve_inode_write: Journal has aborted [ 20.931148] EXT3-fs error (device sda1) in ext3_orphan_del: Journal has aborted [ 20.931257] EXT3-fs error (device sda1) in ext3_reserve_inode_write: Journal has aborted [ 20.932057] __journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_committed_data [ 20.932071] __journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_committed_data [ 20.932165] __journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_committed_data [ 20.932185] __journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_committed_data [ 20.932197] __journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_committed_data I had just booted the system, and was simultaneously doing "rm -r" on an old kernel tree while also doing mirrordir to refressh a different kernel tree from a master copy off NFS. Not much else to say. e2fsck seems to have recovered things, and I've repeated the commands successfully after rebooting. -ml