Kernel panic in ext3:dx_probe, help needed

[Christian Kujau]

On Sat, 14 Jul 2007, Ulf Zimmermann wrote:
>>> believe before the cciss driver is getting unloaded. The last
>>> messages I am able to see are:
>>>
>>> md: stopping all md devices.
>>> md: md0 switched to read-only mode.

I think these messages are the real cause of the ext3 errors.

> Ok, found more information. EL4 sets dir_index for / (cciss/c0d0p6 as we
> are installing it). The RedHat provided cciss driver (2.6.14-RH2) has no
> problem with that, the latest cciss driver from HP, 2.6.16-6, does.
> Turning off dir_index for /, forcing fsck during reboot and everything
> is fine.

A device driver should not care about filesystem features, IMHO. Either 
there are problems with the cciss driver (syslog messages please) or the 
ext3 fs is corrupted - in which case fsck should be run.

C.
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