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DateThu, 02 Jan 1997 08:06:20 -0500 (EST)
From"Mark H. Wood" <>
SubjectRe: Serious ext2fs problem
On Tue, 31 Dec 1996, Chris Adams wrote:

> Once upon a time, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote> > In article <199612311454.IAA18638@sh1.ro.com> Chris Adams
> > <cadams@ro.com> writes:
> > > In my case, the filesystem error in questions is
> > 
> > > EXT2-fs error (device 08:31): ext2_new_block: Free blocks count
> > > corrupted for block group 546
> > 
> > > This is on a 10 gig RAID 0 news spool (on a DPT 3224).  The system is
> > > running Linux 2.0.27 + the noatime patch and INN 1.4unoff4.  When I run
> > > e2fsck (1.04 that comes with RedHat 4.0 and 1.06 from tsx-11), no errors
> > > are reported.
> > 
> > Bad SCSI bus.
> > 
> > This is almost certainly bad hardware, either the disk or the SCSI
> > bus.  I'd check your cables and try pushing the bus speed down to 5
> > MHz.  I have seen almost identical symptoms on a news server myself,
> > and it turned out to be hardware.  The reason you see the free blocks
> > count message is just that this is one place that the kernel is in a
> > position to do some self-checking; single-bit errors on the SCSI bus
> > in other blocks won't normally be detected.  > > Once the errors start happening, they keep happening at the same place
> over and over again.  However, if I stop INN, umount the drive, mount
> the drive, and start INN, everything is happy (I had it giving me the
> above error twice everytime I tried to tell INN to "go").  Since I
> umounted the drive and remounted it, it has been running just fine for
> ~24 hours.  That doesn't seem like hardware to me.

Sure does to me.  Bad memory, that is.  Once a cached block gets 
corrupted it stays put and stays corrupted.

Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer   MWOOD@INDYVAX.IUPUI.EDU
Those who will not learn from history are doomed to reimplement it.


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