From: Ted Ts'o Subject: Re: ext4 problems with external RAID array via SAS connection Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 17:54:36 -0500 Message-ID: <20110207225436.GG3457@thunk.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org To: bryan.coleman@dart.biz Return-path: Received: from li9-11.members.linode.com ([67.18.176.11]:38922 "EHLO test.thunk.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755238Ab1BGWyj (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Feb 2011 17:54:39 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 01:53:18PM -0500, bryan.coleman@dart.biz wrote: > I am experiencing problems with an ext4 file system. > > At first, the drive seemed to work fine. I was primarily copying things > to the drive migrating data from another server. After many GBs of data, > that seemingly successfully were done being transferred, I started seeing > ext4 errors in /var/log/messages. I then unmounted the drive and ran fsck > on it (which took multiple hours to run). I then ls'ed around and one of > the areas caused the system to again throw ext4 errors. Did fsck report any errors? Do you have a copy of your fsck transcript? The errors you've reported do make me suspicious that there's something unstable with your hardware... - Ted