Re: 2.6.18-mm2: ext3 BUG?

Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Thu, 5 Oct 2006 14:50:42 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.linux.kernel,gmane.comp.file-systems.ext2.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 23:34:13 +0159
Jiri Slaby <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> while yum update-ing, yum crashed and this appeared in log:
> [ 2840.688718] EXT3-fs error (device hda2): ext3_free_blocks_sb: bit already 
> cleared for block 747938
> [ 2840.688732] Aborting journal on device hda2.
> [ 2840.688858] ext3_abort called.
>
> ...
>
> I don't know how to reproduce it and really have no idea what version of -mm 
> could introduce it (if any).

I don't necessarily see a bug in there.  The filesystem got a bit noisy but
did appropriately detect and handle the metadata inconsistency.

The next step would be to fsck that filesystem, see waht it says.