From: Ted Ts'o Subject: Re: ext4 problems with external RAID array via SAS connection Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 13:28:23 -0500 Message-ID: <20110209182823.GC9533@thunk.org> References: <20110207225436.GG3457@thunk.org> <4D515F0D.1030902@redhat.com> <4D51AC5E.10404@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Eric Sandeen , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org To: bryan.coleman@dart.biz Return-path: Received: from li9-11.members.linode.com ([67.18.176.11]:40492 "EHLO test.thunk.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755472Ab1BIS2d (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Feb 2011 13:28:33 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 08:43:56AM -0500, bryan.coleman@dart.biz wrote: > > The fsck said it completed successfully. I kicked off fsck again just to > make sure and it reported clean. So I mounted the drive and ls'd around > and it started reporting errors. "ls: cannot access 40: Input/output > error" Note: 40 is a directory. Well, we'd need to look at the kernel messages, but the Input/output error strongly suggests that there are, well, I/O errors talking to your storage array. Which again suggests hardware problems, or device driver bugs, or both. - Ted