From: Meelis Roos Subject: ext3 warning from mark_buffer_dirty after aborting journal Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 09:03:09 +0200 (EET) Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from smtp2.it.da.ut.ee ([193.40.5.67]:35318 "EHLO smtp2.it.da.ut.ee" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751160AbZCDHDL (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Mar 2009 02:03:11 -0500 Received: from math.ut.ee (math.ut.ee [193.40.36.2]) by smtp2.it.da.ut.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6127473D7E8 for ; Wed, 4 Mar 2009 09:03:09 +0200 (EET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by math.ut.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FD25FD79B for ; Wed, 4 Mar 2009 09:03:09 +0200 (EET) Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Just got this warning when running 2.6.29-rc + yesterdays git on sparc64. For some yet unknown reason, scsi disk goes repeatably offline during shutdown and this got a warning out of ext3. Is this an expected warning or does it need some attention? Please CC: as I am not subscribed to linux-ext4. [20639.424955] sd 0:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to offline device [20639.488559] Aborting journal on device sda2. [20639.538715] sd 0:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to offline device [20639.607271] sd 0:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to offline device [20639.670515] EXT3-fs error (device sda2): ext3_find_entry: reading directory #188427 offset 0 [20639.770755] Remounting filesystem read-only [20639.821110] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [20639.876118] WARNING: at fs/buffer.c:1251 mark_buffer_dirty+0xa8/0xc0() [20639.954215] Modules linked in: ipv6 ext2 loop [20640.006202] Call Trace: [20640.035492] [000000000045cd6c] warn_slowpath+0x6c/0xc0 [20640.097999] [0000000000508708] mark_buffer_dirty+0xa8/0xc0 [20640.164695] [0000000000554b58] ext3_commit_super+0xb8/0x100 [20640.232396] [00000000005563e8] ext3_handle_error+0x68/0xe0 [20640.299084] [0000000000556530] ext3_error+0x50/0x60 [20640.358463] [0000000000551ed4] ext3_find_entry+0x554/0x680 [20640.425137] [00000000005529f0] ext3_lookup+0x30/0x160 [20640.486648] [00000000004ebfb8] __lookup_hash+0xf8/0x140 [20640.550159] [00000000004ec034] lookup_hash+0x34/0x60 [20640.610596] [00000000004ef998] do_filp_open+0x238/0x7e0 [20640.674154] [00000000004e0ab4] do_sys_open+0x54/0x100 [20640.735614] [00000000004431bc] sparc32_open+0x1c/0x40 [20640.797080] [0000000000406254] linux_sparc_syscall32+0x34/0x40 [20640.867912] ---[ end trace 747d11ba5876fcd1 ]--- -- Meelis Roos (mroos@linux.ee)