fedora 8 - corrupt fs ?

[Roger Heflin]

tom lee wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 7:08 AM, David Timms <dtimms at iinet.net.au> wrote:
>> Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>>> tom lee writes:
>>>
>>> Your root filesystem probably got corrupted. When the kernel detects
>> filesystem corruption, the partition usually gets remounted read-only.
>> I agree with the other answers about filesystem corruption...
>>
>> Back in FC3, I would occasionally get this on a new Poweredge 2650 server
>> using scsi raid 5. Eventually Dell bios, scsi firmware + adaptec raid scsi
>> improvements led to excellent reliability {400+ days uptime}.
>>
>> Check your /var/log/messages for mentions of errors etc.
> 
> Just checked. no error messages except:
>  Apr 23 06:21:05 MyMachineName kernel: possible SYN flooding on port
> 25. Sending cookies.
> 
> I do use adaptec raid card though not dell brand machine
> 

You won't get a message in the messages file.

It would have been in dmesg before it rebooted, when it happens the filesystem 
gets converted to read-only *BEFORE* the message makes it to the file.

                          Roger