Re: BUG: XFS internal error xfs_trans_cancel in 2.6.27

[Sean Purdy <sean-kernel@purdy.org>]

On Fri, 10 Oct 2008, Dave Chinner said:
> On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 11:36:10AM +0100, Sean Purdy wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Further to the discussion (and patching) of an xfs_trans_cancel
> > issue in June, in kernel < 2.6.26
> > 
> > A similar issue came up on one disk of a 4 x 750GiB machine
> > with a 2.6.24 kernel.  So I installed 2.6.27-6 and gave it another try.
> > But I'm still seeing the same problem.  Remounting the drive each time
> > is fine, and xfs_check shows no errors.
> 
> 2.6.27-6? You mean 2.6.27-rc6?

I meant rc9 as it happens, but never mind.
 
> Anyway, you need to try this patch:
> 
> http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2008-10/msg00105.html
> 
> which I posted a few days ago that fixes the latest reproducable
> case of this shutdown that I know of.

This patch worked fine, thanks very much!  Can we get it into
some stable version of 2.6.27?  Maybe I can put in a bug request
for the next Ubuntu kernel.


Sean