[CentOS] EXT3 fs error on RAID1 device

[Alfred von Campe]

On Mar 29, 2007, at 6:36, Rasmus Back wrote:

> I have a Dell SC440 running Centos 4.4. It has two 500GB disks in a
> RAID1 array using linux software raid (md1 is / and md0 is /boot).
> Recently the root file system was remounted read-only for some reason.
> The logs don't show anything unusual, presumably the file system was
> read-only before anythng was logged. Running dmesg showed this error
> repeated many times:
>
> EXT3-fs error (device md1) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted

I had the exact error 9 months or so ago (look for a similarly titled  
thread in the archives).  It was a disk going bad.  Get all the data  
off you need now and replace the disk ASAP.  It may run for a few  
days/weeks before it gets mounted again read only, but eventually you  
will lose some data.

Alfred