Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 07 Dec 2007 08:11:51 +0100 | | From | Marco Gatti <> | | Subject | Re: Bug: get EXT3-fs error Allocating block in system zone | |
Andrew Morton schrieb:
>> But the effect is under every circumstances described above that I got
>> after an unspecific time EXT3-fs errors. I tried to use different
>> partitions, one for root and data, got errors on both.
>>
>> Dec 3 15:05:34 adira EXT3-fs error (device sdb4): ext3_new_block:
>> Allocating block in system zone - blocks from 74907667, length 1
>>
>> I tried different hard disks, different sizes of partitions, always the
>> same issue. I always saw that mem is fully cached (I have 8GB RAM!).
>> After that, the ext3 has severe faults fsck.ext3 repaired them, but an
>> amount of data was lost.
>>
>> I also tried with different file systems (reiserfs3, xfs), also kernel
>> trace errors, so I got back to ext3.
>>
>> Can't believe that it's a pure fs-error. Is it an ahci.c issue? Or a
>> problem with acpi and memory management?
>
> At a guess I'd say the disk system is being bad. it might be a hardware
> failure too - it's a new system.
>
I thought that first, too. I forgot to mention that I did a badblocks on
the partitions and the two whole disks. No issues reported. I formated
the disks several times and reinstalled the whole gentoo and compiled
the kernel again more than one time (I tried 2.6.24-rc3 too) 'cause of
the ext3 / other fs issues. I did dd if=/dev/zero of=... on the
partitions and the whole disks. No issues of bad blocks. The strange
thing is everything works fine under Windows XP x64 Prof. But I don't
wanted to use that OS really... So I can't believe that's a hardware
issue of the disks.
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