unexpected dirty buffer

[Mike Fedyk]

Nicolas.Kowalski at imag.fr wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> On a server running 2.4.25, I have the two following errors in the 
> kernel logfile:
> 
> Unexpected dirty buffer encountered at do_get_write_access:618 (08:11 blocknr 920707)
> Unexpected dirty buffer encountered at do_get_write_access:618 (08:11 blocknr 920707)
> 

It's probably a driver problem.

> 
> Should I worry about them (disk failure, filesystem damage) ?

It's possible, depending on which driver is having trouble.

Did you run fsck?

> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> As an addition what does the pair '08:11' means ? Is this the
> major/minor of the hard disk partition where the filesystem is located ?

Yes, check /proc/partitions.

Mike