linux-ext4 - [Bug 114821] Frequent and recurring ext4 "bad header invalid magic" errors on a healthy drive

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Date:	Thu, 17 Mar 2016 07:38:19 +0000
From:	bugzilla-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org
To:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [Bug 114821] Frequent and recurring ext4 "bad header invalid magic"
 errors on a healthy drive

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114821

Christian Kujau <lists@...dbynature.de> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Christian Kujau <lists@...dbynature.de> ---
"the hard drive produces a distinct clunk every few seconds" sounds like
hardware problems. Other file systems have different access patterns and it may
not be vis^W audible with e.g. NTFS, but I wouldn't trust a hard disk that
makes "clunk" noises. That being said, there are crucial parts missing from
this report: syslog errors during the access problems (a full dmesg may be
helpful too); does it happen with a current vanilla kernel? Also: has this been
reported to the linux-ext4 mailing list prior opening this bug?

Also, this error seems to be rather common with Raspberry environments, see:

https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-arm-108/raspberry-pi2-keeps-crashing-and-corrupting-disk-4175541613/
 (May 2015)

https://github.com/atom/atom/issues/8381 (Aug 2015)

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/269609/recurring-ext4-bad-header-invalid-magic-errors-on-a-healty-drive
(from 3 days ago, is that you?)

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