diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/journal.c b/fs/ocfs2/journal.c
index 36304434eacf..e5dcea6cee5f 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/journal.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/journal.c
@@ -666,23 +666,24 @@ static int __ocfs2_journal_access(handle_t *handle,
 	/* we can safely remove this assertion after testing. */
 	if (!buffer_uptodate(bh)) {
 		mlog(ML_ERROR, "giving me a buffer that's not uptodate!\n");
-		mlog(ML_ERROR, "b_blocknr=%llu\n",
-		     (unsigned long long)bh->b_blocknr);
+		mlog(ML_ERROR, "b_blocknr=%llu, b_state=0x%lx\n",
+		     (unsigned long long)bh->b_blocknr, bh->b_state);
 
 		lock_buffer(bh);
 		/*
-		 * A previous attempt to write this buffer head failed.
-		 * Nothing we can do but to retry the write and hope for
-		 * the best.
+		 * A previous transaction with a couple of buffer heads fail
+		 * to checkpoint, so all the bhs are marked as BH_Write_EIO.
+		 * For current transaction, the bh is just among those error
+		 * bhs which previous transaction handle. We can't just clear
+		 * its BH_Write_EIO and reuse directly, since other bhs are
+		 * not written to disk yet and that will cause metadata
+		 * inconsistency. So we should set fs read-only to avoid
+		 * further damage.
 		 */
 		if (buffer_write_io_error(bh) && !buffer_uptodate(bh)) {
-			clear_buffer_write_io_error(bh);
-			set_buffer_uptodate(bh);
-		}
-
-		if (!buffer_uptodate(bh)) {
 			unlock_buffer(bh);
-			return -EIO;
+			return ocfs2_error(osb->sb, "A previous attempt to "
+					"write this buffer head failed\n");
 		}
 		unlock_buffer(bh);
 	}