linux-kernel - Re: EXT4-fs error w/ external USB drive

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Message-ID: <50898490.20409@redhat.com>
Date:	Thu, 25 Oct 2012 13:27:28 -0500
From:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
To:	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>,
	Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@....de>,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: EXT4-fs error w/ external USB drive

On 10/25/12 1:20 PM, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 06:39:30PM +0200, Toralf Förster wrote:
>> After a lot of file operations (Gentoo emerging, kernel build, git
>> pulls, ...) I s2disk the system (that with the external USB drive)
>> yesterday, wake it up today, rebooted it -
>> and had to manually repair the file system, because the automatic fsck
>> gave up.
> 
> OK, I'm going to send another patch series which I'd hope you could
> test to see if reduces the rate at which this happens.
> 
>> Nevertheless there's another Linux system I have (64bit RH EL,internal
>> drive), where with kernel 3.5.4-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64 EXT4 errors occurred.
>> I attached the whole appropriate section of /var/log/message.
> 
> I don't have easy access to the RHEL kernel sources, and so I don't

Just FWIW, that's a 3rd party kernel, not something Red Hat
ships.  (see "elrepo")

-Eric

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