Did you happen to be running a disk I/O intensive operation at around the
time these messages started to appear? Or perhaps something like 'find /
-name "*" -print'? Or were you accessing certain files frequently in a
short period of time? You may have encountered the filesystem corruption
bug, though I though that it wasn't present in kernels before 2.2.8.
On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, Josh Buysse wrote:
>
>
> I just had a 2.2.5-ac6 box start spitting messages like these:
>
> Jun 24 04:04:31 blackhole kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
> Jun 24 04:04:31 blackhole kernel: 03:05: rw=0, want=1879843524,
> limit=4200966
> Jun 24 04:04:31 blackhole kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device
> Jun 24 04:04:31 blackhole kernel: 03:05: rw=0, want=1879844446,
> limit=4200966
>
> There were no other messages before this that were odd in any way. The
> machine has been rebooted -- the filesystems were clean after a reboot.
> The .config is attached -- short version: no quotas, scsi, IRdA, etc.
>
> The hardware is an AMD K6-2/400, 64MB of (tested good) PC100 RAM, Asus
> socket-7 mobo (not sure of exact model, but it's got the Aladdin IV
> chipset), 3c905B.
>
> No NFS server or clients running, nor portmap. The only daemons
> listening on the box are syslogd and sshd ;)
>
> If any more information is needed, just ask.
>
> Josh
>
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