linux-ext4 - Re: ext4 problems with external RAID array via SAS connection

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Date:	Wed, 9 Feb 2011 13:28:23 -0500
From:	Ted Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	bryan.coleman@...t.biz
Cc:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ext4 problems with external RAID array via SAS connection

On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 08:43:56AM -0500, bryan.coleman@...t.biz wrote:
> 
> The fsck said it completed successfully.  I kicked off fsck again just to 
> make sure and it reported clean.  So I mounted the drive and ls'd around 
> and it started reporting errors.  "ls: cannot access 40: Input/output 
> error"  Note: 40 is a directory.

Well, we'd need to look at the kernel messages, but the Input/output
error strongly suggests that there are, well, I/O errors talking to
your storage array.  Which again suggests hardware problems, or device
driver bugs, or both.

						- Ted
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