[CentOS] ext3 errors (md device related?)

Sat May 17 18:54:02 UTC 2008
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>

Les Mikesell wrote:
> 
>>> Back to this problem again.  I did a new mkfs.ext3 and ran more than 
>>> a week before hitting this again:
>>>
>>> Mar 14 04:12:29 linbackup1 kernel: md3: rw=0, want=14439505280, 
>>> limit=1465143808
>>> Mar 14 04:12:29 linbackup1 kernel: EXT3-fs error (device md3): 
>>> ext3_readdir: directory #34079247 contains a hole at offset 0
>>> Mar 14 04:12:29 linbackup1 kernel: Aborting journal on device md3.
>>> Mar 14 04:12:29 linbackup1 kernel: md3: rw=0, want=5260961472, 
>>> limit=1465143808
>>> Mar 14 04:12:29 linbackup1 kernel: EXT3-fs error (device md3): 
>>> ext3_readdir: directory #34079247 contains a hole at offset 4096
>>>
>>> I don't see any hardware related errors, and the rest of the 
>>> filesystems all seem fine, although this is the one that is busy.
>>
>> Is your memory ECC? If not then a memory problem can fly under the radar.
> 
> dmidecode says single-bit ECC

Just to clear up this old thread, the problem did turn out to be memory 
but it took most of a day's run of memtest86 to find it and even then it 
only reported soft errors.  After replacing the RAM everything has been 
fine for several weeks.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com