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

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Date:	Mon, 7 Feb 2011 17:54:36 -0500
From:	Ted Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	bryan.coleman@...t.biz
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ext4 problems with external RAID array via SAS connection

On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 01:53:18PM -0500, bryan.coleman@...t.biz wrote:
> I am experiencing problems with an ext4 file system.
> 
> At first, the drive seemed to work fine.  I was primarily copying things 
> to the drive migrating data from another server.  After many GBs of data, 
> that seemingly successfully were done being transferred, I started seeing 
> ext4 errors in /var/log/messages.  I then unmounted the drive and ran fsck 
> on it (which took multiple hours to run).  I then ls'ed around and one of 
> the areas caused the system to again throw ext4 errors.

Did fsck report any errors?  Do you have a copy of your fsck
transcript?

The errors you've reported do make me suspicious that there's
something unstable with your hardware...

					- Ted
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