Re: Regular ext4 error warning with HD in USB dock

[Ted Ts'o]

On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 09:19:17AM +0100, Rogier Wolff wrote:
> > That's actually not an error.  It's a report which is generated every
> > 24 hours, indicating that there has been 3 errors since the last time
> > the error count has been cleared, with the first error taking place at
> > Sat Nov 6 10:27:57 2010 (US/Eastern) in the function
> > ext4_journal_start_sb(), at line 251, and the most recent error taking
> > place at Sat Nov 6 18:02:28 2010 (US/Eastern), in the function
> > ext4_put_super() at line 719.  This is a new feature which was added
> > in 2.6.36.
> 
> Nice. But the issue you're not mentioning is: What errors could have 
> happened on the 6th of november? Should Con worry about those errors?

It looks like those errors were probably caused by I/O errors while
writing to the journal.  Maybe due to a flakey USB connection,
perhaps?  It would be useful to look at the /var/log/messagfes around
that date to get a more detailed look.

> OK, the chances are that he has rebooted since november, and that an
> older fsck fixed the errors, but not cleared the "fs errror log". Would
> these errors have triggered a "remount-readonly" if the fs was mounted 
> like that?

Yes, errors that get recorded into the superblock are also errors that
would cause a read-only remount if the file system is set that way.

      	      			       	    - Ted
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