From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
To: Martin Steigerwald <ms@teamix.de>
Cc: Timothy Shimmin <tes@sgi.com>, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Is it possible the check an frozen XFS filesytem to avoid downtime
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:27:39 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <487CC1EB.6030100@sandeen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200807150944.13277.ms@teamix.de>
Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> Okay... we recommended the customer to do it the safe way unmounting the
> filesystem completely. He did and the filesystem appear to be intact *phew*.
> XFS appeared to detect the in memory corruption early enough.
>
> Its a bit strange however, cause we now know that the server sports ECC RAM.
> Well we will see what memtest86+ has to say about it.
in-memory corruption could mean, but certainly does not absolutely mean,
problematic memory. It could be, and usually is, a plain ol' bug (in
xfs or elsewhere).
-Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-15 15:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-14 13:42 Is it possible the check an frozen XFS filesytem to avoid downtime Martin Steigerwald
2008-07-15 3:38 ` Timothy Shimmin
2008-07-15 7:44 ` Martin Steigerwald
2008-07-15 15:27 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2008-07-16 7:53 ` Martin Steigerwald
2008-10-27 16:57 ` Martin Steigerwald
2008-10-27 17:15 ` Eric Sandeen
2008-10-28 8:36 ` Martin Steigerwald
2008-07-16 8:55 ` Timothy Shimmin
2008-07-15 7:47 ` Martin Steigerwald
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