There's been a lot of discussion in the past on these somewhat-mysterious "bit already cleared" messages appearing in the logs when using Ext3 file systems. Unfortunately, I didn't see a conclusion to any of these threads. We're still seeing these messages pop up occasionally and fsck's of the file system reveal lot of orphaned inodes and such. Anybody else see these 'bit already cleared' messages anymore? Anybody know where this thread has gone in the past - i.e. was there ever a definitive culprit? Thanks -Sudhir
Hi, On Sat, 2004-09-04 at 21:38, Sudhir Srinivasan wrote:> There's been a lot of discussion in the past on > these somewhat-mysterious "bit already cleared" > messages appearing in the logs when using Ext3 > file systems.Well, ultimately it means that the data on disk is corrupt. But whether that's a software or a hardware fault requires much more data to analyse, and each case may be unique. --Stephen