JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer

Kyle McMartin kyle at mcmartin.ca
Fri Feb 5 16:06:24 UTC 2010


ping, sandeen?

On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 04:19:54PM +1100, Norman Gaywood wrote:
> I'm getting these messages logged in /var/log/messages. Should I be worried?
> 
> The system has had a number of unclean shutdowns due to:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=550724
> 
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> These are ext4 filesystems.
> 
> 
> Feb  5 15:59:13 turing kernel: JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = dm-5, blocknr = 2886179). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash.


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