From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-2 i686; en-US; m18) Gecko/20010131 Netscape6/6.01 Description of problem: While running stress-kernel-0.9-19.i386.rpm on fairfax beta 1, console reports "ext3_write_inode: inside transaction!" continually. Interspersed among these messages is another stating: "journal_commit_transaction: odd-- more buffers." This behaviour was observed on a 6400 w/ beta1, perc3dc raid 1 container, 5GB ram, ENTERPRISE kernel, 2GB swap, and bios A08. Errors appeared after two hours of cerberus. I've also seen the "ext3" error occur twice over a 4 day period on a 2500 w/ beta1, perc3dc raid 5 container, SMP kernel, 128MB ram, 2GB swap, bios A04. Error has not appeared on a 1550 w/ beta1, running UP kernel, perc3dc raid 0 container, 512MB ram, 2GB swap, bios A02 after 2 days of cerberus. In summary, error occurs numerous times with enterprise kernel, a couple of times with smp kernel, and not at all with up kernel. How reproducible: Didn't try, but observed on more than one platform. Steps to Reproduce: 1.Set up stated configuration, or possibly others. 2.Install and begin stress-kernel-0.9-19.i386.rpm 3.Appears will appear at console. Actual Results: Stated errors at console Expected Results: No errors Additional info:
This defect considered MUST-FIX for Fairfax gold-release.
Those are simply debugging messages which escaped into the wild. They are all harmless and are removed in current versions of ext3. The next beta kernel will have them all removed.