From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750990AbXAVIDX (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jan 2007 03:03:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750887AbXAVIDX (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jan 2007 03:03:23 -0500 Received: from omx2-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.171.19]:60045 "EHLO omx2.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750741AbXAVIDW (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jan 2007 03:03:22 -0500 Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 19:03:06 +1100 From: David Chinner To: Stefan Priebe - FH Cc: David Chinner , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: XFS or Kernel Problem / Bug Message-ID: <20070122080306.GW33919298@melbourne.sgi.com> References: <20060801143212.D2326184@wobbly.melbourne.sgi.com> <44CEDA1D.5060607@profihost.com> <20060801143803.E2326184@wobbly.melbourne.sgi.com> <44CF36FB.6070606@profihost.com> <20060802090915.C2344877@wobbly.melbourne.sgi.com> <44D07AB7.3020409@profihost.com> <20060802201805.A2360409@wobbly.melbourne.sgi.com> <45B35CD7.4080801@profihost.com> <20070122061852.GT33919298@melbourne.sgi.com> <45B46CEE.4090808@profihost.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <45B46CEE.4090808@profihost.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 08:51:10AM +0100, Stefan Priebe - FH wrote: > Hi! > > I'm not shure but perhaps it isn't an XFS Bug. > > Here is what i find out: > > We've about 300 servers at the momentan and 5 of them are "old" Intel > Pentium 4 Machines with a DFI PM-12 Mainboard with VIA chipset. It only > happens on THESE Machines. Hmmm - that points more to a hardware problem than a software problem; crashes in generic_file_buffered_write() are relatively uncommon, and to have them all isolated to a specific type of hardware is suspicious.... Wasn't there a major update of the IDE layer in 2.6.18? or was that 2.6.19 that I'm thinking of? BTW, have you run memtest86 on these boxes to rule out dodgy memory? Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner Principal Engineer SGI Australian Software Group