[SLE] "JDB barrier-based sync failed" how serious?

From: elefino (kevinmcl_at_magma.ca)
Date: 12/29/04

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Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 13:40:14 -0500

    I have SuSE 9.2 on an old Athlon 1.1 system, with two identical 30GB
    hard drives. One has the "/" and "/boot" partitions, and the other has the
    "/swap" and "/home" partitions. I'm using ext3, only because I saw some
    warnings in this list about problems with Reiserfs that I previously used
    for a few years.

    Following a recent YOU update, I was having slowdowns and glitches (the
    system had been up for two or three months), so I shut it down the other
    night and restarted the next morning. I was unable to load from HD, and
    unable to repair.

    I kept getting this message during startup:
    "JDB barrier-based sync failed on hda3 - disabling barriers"
    Google gives exactly one hit on that.

    I re-installed from DVD (including allowing YOU to bring the system
    up-to-date). At the next reboot, I get the "barrier-based sync failed"
    message again, but at least the system is currently working (and I"m
    writing this in KMail).

    My question is:
    Am I more likely looking at a kernel-related issue, or a hard-disk
    hardware problem?

    I'm considering walking across the street to my friendly neighborhood
    computer store and buying a replacement hard disk for HDA. There
    have been no complaints from the system about HDB (which I mentioned
    is the same model as HDA). But if this is system/kernel related, then I'd
    be wasting my money.

    What do the wise ones say?

    Kevin 

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