[Gllug] apparent disk i/o error

[Alain Williams]

On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 01:54:24PM +0100, Kim Hawtin wrote:
> > A few months ago (I think after a kernel upgrade) I started to get reports of 'Input/output error'
> > on some file systems. I have checked, there does not seem to be a hardware problem and
> > this happens on several machines. The block that the failure happens on is always one or
> > two from the end of the disk partition:
> 
> purely out of interest, have you run badblocks recently ?

I did just now. Badblocks also gets an I/O error -- but just doesn't report it.
Given that I see this on different machines, I suspect that it is not a real hardware problem.

-- 
Alain Williams

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