[wplug] journal commit i/o error

[Shane Liesegang]

Sadly, I don't remember the exact procedure I followed when extending 
the LVM. By the end of the procedure, the GUI showed the partitions 
across both drives (one on sda, the other on sdb) as one logical volume 
in the LVM. Sure enough, that volume was reporting a size of the 
combined partitions.

I tried smartmontools, which, for whatever reason, claims that my 
devices don't support SMART. I downloaded SeaTools Desktop (both my 
drives are Seagate), and it said that SMART was enabled on the drives, 
which makes me think there was some kind of software error there.

The SeaTools Desktop ran its tests, but threw a floating point error and 
refused to test my second disk. Suspicious. I'm definitely starting to 
think hardware goofiness on this one.

Of course, I can't do a reformat/install anyway since Fedora is 
currently inaccessible so I couldn't get updates. :-(

	- SJML


Poyner, Brandon wrote:
>> Now, google tells me this kind of thing often happens with a hardware 
>> failure on the drive. Indeed, it seems to occur as the one drive gets 
>> full and the LVM goes to switch to the next drive. My 
>> question is this: 
>> is it pretty much assuredly a hardware problem, or might I be able to 
>> fix it with a (better) reformatting of my system? Could I 
>> have screwed 
>> something up in the LVM that's causing this error, or should 
>> I just RMA 
>> the drive as soon as possible?
>>
>> Thanks for any advice.
>>
>> 	- SJML
> 
> First, I agree with Vance's advice on using smartmontools, especially in
> a proactive monitoring fashion.  As for your question about LVM, it is
> possible the problem was caused by incorrectly configuring LVM but not
> likely.  We'd need to know more about your LVM, partitions and
> filesystem to begin to answer that one.  Did you create the physical
> volume on the new disk, extend the volume group, umount the partition,
> extend the logical volume, and then extend the filesystem?  It would be
> faster to rule out problems with the hard drives by using smartmontools
> or the utility provided by your hard drive manufacturer.
> 
> Brandon Poyner
> Network Engineer III
> CCAC - College Office
> 412-237-3086
> 
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