On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 13:58 -0500, linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote: > On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Dave Jones wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 08:15:42AM -0500, linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote: > > > > > Dec 7 04:05:55 chaos kernel: sd 0:0:1:0: [sdb] Add. Sense: Peripheral > > > device write fault > > > > This sounds more like a hardware problem.
> There was an attempt to write beyond the end of the device because > everything in the file-system was getting trashed. I can read/write > the 5 year-old SCSI physical drive with no errors from both within > linux and through the Adaptec BIOS. This problem only occurs > when I attempt to truncate a file that is being written by another > task. Well, that might be how you can reproduce it, but this is almost certainly a hardware problem and not EXT2 at fault - the filesystem can only do just so much once its data has been corrupted by an old disk. Jon. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/