ext3-fs error with RAID 5 Array.

Kannan Raghuprasath raghuprasath at yahoo.com
Mon Sep 3 07:29:09 UTC 2007


Hi Jan,

Thanks for reply. I am using latest mother board with
core 2 duo processor .. did you change the RAM? 
can you kindly specify the type of mother board that
worked for you?.

Thanks
Raghu
--- Jan Stobbe <jan.stobbe at netropol.de> wrote:

> Hi Kannan,
> 
> we had similar problems with ext3. After a month of
> searching for the
> error we changed the mainboard of the server. The
> maiboard was to old to
> work properly with the new areca raid controler we
> used.
> Without heavy load the device was o.k.
> 
> 
> Best regards, Jan
> 
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have a Fedora core 4 machine (kernel-
> > 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4smp) conneted to external DAS
> using
> > Ultra 320 SCSI controller card. The DAS is
> configured
> > as RAID 5 of 3.5 TB. I partitioned this array into
> two
> > partitions of size 1.9TB and 1.6 TB. These are
> > assigned to 2 different LUNS so that these two
> appear
> > as two partitions in the my Linux machine. 
> > 
> > I use this DAS for backup and after backing up for
> 30
> > hours i observe that partition gets remounted as
> > read-only with following error message in dmesg,
> > 
> > EXT3-fs error (device sdb1): ext3_add_entry: bad
> entry
> > in directory #2: directory entry across blocks -
> > offset=1080, inode=135216, rec_len=4132,
> name_len=25
> > Aborting journal on device sdb1.
> > 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 start_transaction:
> > Journal has aborted
> > EXT3-fs error (device sdb1) in ext3_create: IO
> failure
> > EXT3-fs error (device sdb1): ext3_readdir: bad
> entry
> > in directory #2: directory entry across blocks -
> > offset=1080, inode=135216, rec_len=4132,
> name_len=25
> > EXT3-fs error (device sdb1): ext3_readdir: bad
> entry
> > in directory #2: directory entry across blocks -
> > offset=1080, inode=135216, rec_len=4132,
> name_len=25
> > EXT3-fs error (device sdb1): ext3_readdir: bad
> entry
> > in directory #2: directory entry across blocks -
> > offset=1080, inode=135216, rec_len=4132,
> name_len=25
> > EXT3-fs error (device sdb1): ext3_readdir: bad
> entry
> > in directory #2: directory entry across blocks -
> > offset=1080, inode=135216, rec_len=4132,
> name_len=25
> > EXT3-fs error (device sdb1): ext3_readdir: bad
> entry
> > in directory #2: directory entry across blocks -
> > offset=1080, inode=135216, rec_len=4132,
> name_len=25
> > 
> > 
> > Any suggestions on how to solve this problem?
> > 
> > Best regards and thanks in advance for your help,
> > 
> > Raghu
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >        
> >
>
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