Re: What does I/O error mean in logs?

[Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 05:12:05PM -0500, AndyLiebman@xxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> Does anybody know what this  means? 
> 
> Mar  9 16:32:12 localhost kernel:  audit(1110403917.4294966169:0): initialized
> Mar  9 16:32:59 localhost  kernel: I/O error in filesystem ("sda")
> meta-data dev sda block  0x1e8ed3bff       ("xfs_read_buf") error 5  buf
> count 512
> 

It means the device driver returned an error when XFS
attempted a metadata read.  Looks like one of the AG
header structures in an AG fairly far into the FS, based
on the size and block# there.  Probably a hardware issue.

cheers.

-- 
Nathan