Going readonly too frequently

[Eric Sandeen]

Muhammed Sameer wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> * Our server is going readonly atleast 10 - 15 times a day with the below error

ouch - and even just once is "too frequently" :)
> 
> <snip>
> Jan 26 12:57:36 mailbox kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sdb1): ext3_free_blocks_sb: bit already cleared for block 53771686
> Jan 26 12:57:36 mailbox kernel: Aborting journal on device sdb1.
> Jan 26 12:57:36 mailbox kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sdb1) in ext3_reserve_inode_write: Journal has aborted
> Jan 26 12:57:36 mailbox kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sdb1) in ext3_truncate: Journal has aborted
> Jan 26 12:57:36 mailbox kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sdb1) in ext3_reserve_inode_write: Journal has aborted
> Jan 26 12:57:36 mailbox kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sdb1) in ext3_orphan_del: Journal has aborted
> Jan 26 12:57:36 mailbox kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sdb1) in ext3_reserve_inode_write: Journal has aborted
> Jan 26 12:57:36 mailbox kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sdb1) in ext3_delete_inode: Journal has aborted
> Jan 26 12:57:36 mailbox kernel: __journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_committed_data
> Jan 26 12:57:36 mailbox last message repeated 3 times
> Jan 26 12:57:36 mailbox kernel: ext3_abort called.
> Jan 26 12:57:36 mailbox kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sdb1): ext3_journal_start_sb: Detected aborted journal
> Jan 26 12:57:36 mailbox kernel: Remounting filesystem read-only
> Jan 26 12:58:04 mailbox kernel: __journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_committed_data
> Jan 26 12:58:05 mailbox kernel: __journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_committed_data
> </snip>
> 
> * Our kernel is 
> 2.6.18-182.el5
> 
> * Our OS is
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.2 (Tikanga)
> 
> * We even tried fsck  but the problem persists

It would probably be best to open a support ticket with Red Hat for this one,
since it's a Red Hat kernel.

If you have any way to reproduce it that'd be very useful information - 
perhaps even a test using an e2image of the filesystem in question.

Thanks,
-Eric

> Regards,
> Muhammed Sameer
> 
> 
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