'JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer ...' message when usrquota is enabled on RHEL6

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • When root user runs fsstress test, which issues various operations on filesystem, when usrquota is enabled JBD error is output in /var/log/messages.

    kernel: JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = sda10, blocknr = 8705). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Snapshot 8
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Snapshot 10
  • user or group quotas enabled.

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