Recover original superblock on corrupted filesystem?

bloch at verdurin.com bloch at verdurin.com
Wed Nov 2 13:09:57 UTC 2005


On Tue, 01 Nov 2005, bloch at verdurin.com wrote:

> 
> As an update to this, the problem seems to have re-occurred.  Here are
> the relevant error messages:
> 
> EXT3-fs error (device sdb1): ext3_new_block: Allocating block in system
> zone - block = 41484288
> Aborting journal on device sdb1.
> EXT3-fs error (device sdb1) in ext3_new_block: Journal has aborted
> ext3_abort called.
> EXT3-fs error (device sdb1): ext3_journal_start_sb: Detected aborted
> journal
> Remounting filesystem read-only
> EXT3-fs error (device sdb1) in ext3_reserve_inode_write: Journal has
> aborted
> __journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_committed_data
> 

Another update - exactly the same problem has occurred on an identical
machine.  The disks are on a Megaraid RAID1 array.

Two other machines which only differ from the problem ones in that they
have 4G RAM instead of 8G have not shown any such symptoms.


Adam




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